A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology. Reprinted and Presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875

ROYAL GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY

Verlag: Murray, 1875

Beschreibung

FIRST EDITION, text diagrams, 2 folding lithograph plates, publishers blind stamped blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, 8vo, London, Murray, 1875 A Collection of papers on Arctic geography, including: On the Physical Structure of Greenland, by Dr. R. Brown On the Best Means of reaching the Pole, by Admiral Baron von Wrangell On the Discoveries of Dr. Kane, U.S.A., by Dr. Rink The Arctic Current around Greenland. By Admiral C. Irminger, of the Danish navy Notes on the State of the Ice, and on the Indications of Open Water from Behring Strait to Bellot Strait, along the Coasts of Arctic America and Siberia, including the Accounts of Anjou and Wrangell. By Vice-Admiral R. Collinson Papers on the Greenland Eskimos. By Clements R. Markham On the Descent of the Eskimo. By Dr. Rink The Western Eskimo. By Dr. Simpson Report of the Anthropological Institute… In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between Greenland and Canada.These papers were selected for this volume as they were considered useful to the upcoming Arctic Expedition, but the original papers where rendered inaccessible due to Transactions and Proceedings . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6299

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography ...

Verlag: Murray

Erscheinungsdatum: 1875

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition