The Polar passion
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- ISBN: 0879053488
- ISBN: 9780879053482
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Physical Description:
365 p., 32 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
print - Publisher: Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith, Publisher/ Peregrine Smith Books, [1989], c1973.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Reprint. Originally published: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1967 (The Top of the world trilogy ; v. 2) |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-364). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- I. The fist steps North: the saga of Thorgisl Orrabeinfostri c. 997 A.D. -- II. The bay of disbelief: the fifth voyage of Robert Bylot and William Baffin, 1616 -- III. A month to the flame: Elisha Kent Kane, arctic explorations, 1835-55 -- IV. Life on an ice-floe: Charles Fracis Hall, life among the Esquimaux, 1865; George Tyson, wonderful drift, 1871-73 -- V. Lieut. Greely sees it through: Adolphus Greely, three years of arctic service, 1881-84 -- VI. The inland ice: Fridtiof Nansen, the first crossing of Greenland, 1888 -- VII. The passion quickens: a survey: 1892-1906 -- Epilogue -- Index -- Sources and acknowledgements -- Picture credits. |
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