PERILS AND ESCAPES AMONG ICEBERGS! THE WONDERS OF THE ARCTIC WORLD: A HISTORY OF ALL THE RESEARCHES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE FROZEN REGIONS OF THE NORTH FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, With Sketches of The Cabots, Frobisher, Hudson, Baffin, Behring, Cook, Ross, Franklin, Parry, Back, Rae, McClintock, Kane, Hayes, Hall, and others,TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE HISTORY OF THE POLARIS EXPEDITION UNDER THE LATE CAPTAIN C.F.HALL, FROM OFFICIAL AND TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES EMBRACING THE IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES OF THIS HEROIC EXPLORER, WHO ATTAINED A LATITUDE FARTHER NORTH THAN EVER BEFORE REACHED; HIS SINGULAR AND UNTIMELY DEATH ON THE VERY EVE OF HIS GREAT TRIUMPH; THE REMARKABLE RESCUE OF CAPTAIN TYSON AND OTHERS OF THE CREW FROM A FLOATING FIELD by Sargent, Epes; Cunningham, William H - 1873
by Sargent, Epes; Cunningham, William H
PERILS AND ESCAPES AMONG ICEBERGS! THE WONDERS OF THE ARCTIC WORLD: A HISTORY OF ALL THE RESEARCHES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE FROZEN REGIONS OF THE NORTH FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, With Sketches of The Cabots, Frobisher, Hudson, Baffin, Behring, Cook, Ross, Franklin, Parry, Back, Rae, McClintock, Kane, Hayes, Hall, and others,TOGETHER WITH A COMPLETE AND RELIABLE HISTORY OF THE POLARIS EXPEDITION UNDER THE LATE CAPTAIN C.F.HALL, FROM OFFICIAL AND TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES EMBRACING THE IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES OF THIS HEROIC EXPLORER, WHO ATTAINED A LATITUDE FARTHER NORTH THAN EVER BEFORE REACHED; HIS SINGULAR AND UNTIMELY DEATH ON THE VERY EVE OF HIS GREAT TRIUMPH; THE REMARKABLE RESCUE OF CAPTAIN TYSON AND OTHERS OF THE CREW FROM A FLOATING FIELD
by Sargent, Epes; Cunningham, William H
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- Hardcover
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Philadelphia: John E. Potter, [1873]. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 651 pages + ads. Illustrations throughout. Very Good+. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; bookplate and name on front endpaper; only very slight wear; a beautiful example. A beautiful antique book full of stories of great American arctic explorers as well as the great Polaris Expedition. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE GREAT CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
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Bookseller
LaCelle Rare Books
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- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Philadelphia: John E. Potter
- Date Published 1873
- Keywords WESTERN AMERICANA,AMERICAN,WEST,ARCTIC,POLAR EXPLORATION