Author: STABLES, GORDON
Title: Wild Adventures Round the Pole, or the Cruise of the 'Snowbird' Crew in the 'Arrandoon' .
Description: London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1883, First Edition. Pictorial Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, viii, 333 pages, 8 b/w plates. All edges gilt. Spine ends rubbed, light bubbling of cloth on rear cover, lacks front fly leaf and half-title page, bookplate removed from front paste down. Novel set in the arctic seas, including Iceland and Jan Mayen. Author also wrote fantasy literature set in the Arctic, e.g. "The City at the Pole" which is also available. Good.

Keywords: Arctic, Juvenile Literature, Iceland, Mount Hekla, Geysers, Jan Mayen, Eskimos, Polar Bears, White Whales, Icebergs, Seals, Walrus, Aurora Borealis, Isel of Desolation , Isla Alba, Balloon Travel


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