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Northward over the "Great Ice." A narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897. With a description of the Little Tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the "Saviksue," or great Cape-York meteorites
by Peary, Robert E
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1898. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece in each volume, large folding map, 1 folding panorama, 2 frontispiece portraits, nearly 800 illustrations throughout, primarily from photographs, many full-page; spine lightly sunned but generally a very good copy in original pictorial blue cloth, white lettering on spines and upper covers, t.e.g. Peary's firsthand account of his two separate Greenland expeditions. Contains much on the natives of northern Greenland and the expedition from McCormick Bay which determined the insularity of Greenland. Arctic Bibliography 13231.
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- Northward over the "Great Ice." A narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897. With a description of the Little Tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the "Saviksue," or great Cape-York meteorites
- Author
- Peary, Robert E
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- Greenland , Eskimos , Polar ,
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