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This Distant and Unsurveyed Country. A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-58
by Ross W. Gillies
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- 258pp, signed on the front endpaper by Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, Fine in near Fine dw.
- ISBN 10
- 0773516743
- ISBN 13
- 9780773516748
- Seller
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Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, United Kingdom
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About This Item
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. 1997 First Edition. hardcover. 258pp, signed on the front endpaper by Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, Fine in near Fine dw.. In 1857 Margaret Penny set off from Aberdeen, with her husband, Captain William Penny aboard the whaler Lady Franklin on a wintering voyage to what is now the eastern Canadian Arctic.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.
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- Bookseller
- Glacier Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74125
- Title
- This Distant and Unsurveyed Country. A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-58
- Author
- Ross W. Gillies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 258pp, signed on the front endpaper by Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, Fine in near Fine dw.
- Edition
- 1997 First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0773516743
- ISBN 13
- 9780773516748
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Place of Publication
- Montreal
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- POLAR NORTH - exploration mountaineering women alpinism bergsteigen arctic north pole discovery travel arktis artique polaire canada canadian baffin island
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