Author: F. Arthur Bain
Title: Life and Adventures of Nansen the Great Arctic Explorer
Description: London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co, c1897. Leather. A prize binding edition of this fascinating and touching biography on the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, an illustrated biography. An insightful biography on the life and career of the great Arctic explorer Fridjtof Nansen.Nansen is one of the most important and prominent Arctic explorers of all time, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for leading the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and many full-paged and in-text illustrations throughout.Collated, complete.By J. Arthur Bain.Undated, dated from the preface. In a prize binding from the Wesleyan High School for Girls, with a prize label to the front paste down. In a full calf prize binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. Externally, with a little discolouration to the spine and extremities. Evidence of former loss to the backstrip. Light marks to the boards and spine. Prize label to the front paste down. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few odd spots to the first and last few pages only. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .

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