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Title: FARTHEST NORTH. Being a Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram.
Description: Westminster Archibald Constable and Co., 1897. 1st UK Ed. 2 vols. Large 8vo. xv + 510pp. + xv + 671pp. Etched port. frontis., photogravure frontis., 16 colour plates, 111 b/w. plates, numerous ills., 4 folding maps. Ex.-libris George French Stebbing, one plate stained to head, light browning, original bright gilt lettered turquoise cloth with gilt ills. to upper boards, sm. bumps to fore-edge of boards, minor marking and wear, spines sl. dulled and bumped, ¶ With the signatures of ‘Chas A. Hartley 26 Pall Mall 1897’ to flyleaves. Sir Charles Augustus Hartley (1825–1915) eminent British civil engineer in the Victorian era. Due to his extensive work mapping the longest river in western Europe, he became known as 'The Father of the Danube.' Arctic Bibliography 11983 (US Edition). ‘Narrative of the First Fram Expedition 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin north of Eurasia by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberia Islands across or near the Pole ...’ Baker. No ship had before reached so high a latitude and the expedition must remain one of the most remarkable and valuable in the whole history of Polar discovery. The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-1896.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; POLAR REGIONS

Price: GBP 200.00 = appr. US$ 285.60 Seller: Francis Edwards Booksellers
- Book number: 283350

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