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Keely, Robert N., G. G. Davis

In Arctic Seas, the Voyage of the "Kite" with the Peary Expedition together with a Transcript of the Log of the "Kite"

1893

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Year of publication
1893
Place of printing
Philadelphia. Rufus C. Hartranft
Author
Keely, Robert N., G. G. Davis
Keyword
Travel - Polar Native Peoples Anthropology
Languages
English

Description

8vo [23 x 17 cm]; vii, 524 pp, frontis, many illustrations & plates, folding map of Greenland. original pictorialred cloth with silver scene on cover, gilt lettering, rubbed, front hinge strengthened, very good copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. AB 8484: "The expedition of 1891-2, sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, was under command of Peary until he left the ship, then under Prof. A. Heilprin. The personnel included zoologists and botanists." Much on the West Greenland coast, natives, ice, etc.