Author: Romanovsky, V.
Title: LE SPITZBERG ET LA SIBÉRIE DU NORD. Préface de Emmanuel de Martonne.
Description: Payot Paris, 1943. 1st Ed. 200pp. + [vi]. 25 figures and maps. French text. Light browning, with the signature and short note of Ann Savours Shirley, original wrapps., some spotting. ¶ Arctic Bibliography 14797 ‘For the general reader. Pt. 1 contains chapters on West Spitsbergen, its discovery, history, geography, geology (in greater detail the author having made a trip to study Polygonal soils there in 1939), flora and fauna, hunting and fishing, colonization, settlements, economy, polar expeditions; Bear Island. Pt. 2. contains chapters on Franz Jozef Land, Novaya Zemlya, and on northern Siberia, its geography, discovery, the Northeast Passage and expeditions, geology, flora and fauna, native peoples, economy, natural resources, radio and polar stations. Bibliography p.195-7.’

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