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Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure Into the Arctic
by ARMS, MYRON
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385490925
- ISBN 13
- 9780385490924
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
USA: Anchor Books/ Doubleday, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and jacket in Near Fine Condition. A nautical adventure aboard a fifty-foot sailboat charts the bleakest and most awesome landscape of our planet-and one man's fierce will to understand it. Binding of black half-cloth w/gilt titles, green boards, very clean and unmarked. Slight sunning along edges. Tight & solid. Square with sharp corners. Maps and eight pages of photographs. Pages clean and unmarked, no tears, no creases. Unclipped, clean and unmarked jacket designed by Mario J. Pulice, jacket photographs by Michael Auth. Jacket with impressive illustration of ship approaching huge ice floes. 267 pages including Chapter notes, Sources and Bibliography. 8.6 x 6 inches. Publisher: AnchorBooks/Doubleday, New York 1998.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016464
- Title
- Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure Into the Arctic
- Author
- ARMS, MYRON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385490925
- ISBN 13
- 9780385490924
- Publisher
- Anchor Books/ Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- BRENDAN'S ISLE (SAILBOAT); ARCTIC REGIONS-DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL; SEA ICE; CLIMATE CHANGE;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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