The Lands of Silence A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration`

The Lands of Silence A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration. Sir Clements Markham. 1921. Cambridge: University Press. 4to. (6.25" x 9.5") Lacking dust jacket. Full blue cloth, spine faded to bluish-silver, silver title, author, & publisher on spine and silver vignette on front cover. Pencil and ink manuscript to front and rear pastedowns and first free endpaper, including prior owners name. Edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed, head and foot of spine ruffled with tiny closed tears, spine sun-faded, boards soiled. Foxing to text block edges and initial leaves. Illustrated with an photogravure of author as frontispiece and dozens of drawings, photographs and maps, all accounted for.