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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 Tcompartmente 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
Peary, Robert E. · New York
- Author
- Peary, Robert E.
- Date
- 1898
- Place
- New York
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo. Original blue cloth, white rule borderon covers around the title, a small vignette, author. Title, author, vol. #, and publisher on faded to brown spine. Top edges gilt.
- Format
- Includes accounts of the reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice in 1886, the North Greenland expedition of 1891-92, on which the insularity of Greenland was determined, the previously unknown shores of Inglefield Gulf and of Whale and Murchison Sounds were mapped, and a successful sledge journey was made across the icecap to Peary Land and return, &c., the North Greenland expedition of 1893-94, based in Bowdoin Bay, the North Greenland expedition of 1894-95, on which another icecap journey was made to Peary Land, and the summer voyages of 1896-97, desccompartmenting excavations of meteorites at Cape York and cruise in Smith Sound.
- Category
- Travel & Exploration
- Record
- S.I.3684
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 Tcompartmente 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. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920)
8vo.1898. Peary, Robert E. New York. Frederick A. Stokes Original blue cloth, white rule borderon covers around the title, a small vignette, author. Title, author, vol. #, and publisher on faded to brown spine. Top edges gilt. Includes accounts of the reconnaissance of the Greenland inland ice in 1886, the North Greenland expedition of 1891-92, on which the insularity of Greenland was determined, the previously unknown shores of Inglefield Gulf and of Whale and Murchison Sounds were mapped, and a successful sledge journey was made across the icecap to Peary Land and return, &c., the North Greenland expedition of 1893-94, based in Bowdoin Bay, the North Greenland expedition of 1894-95, on which another icecap journey was made to Peary Land, and the summer voyages of 1896-97, desccompartmenting excavations of meteorites at Cape York and cruise in Smith Sound.
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