Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North. Illustrated with Photographs and Maps.
by Freuchen, Peter, 1886-1957
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Cranston, Rhode Island, United States
Item Price
NZ$42.35NZ$16.94
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About This Item
New York, Farrar & Rinehart [1935].. Hard Cover. xi, 467 p., photos throughout incl. portrait front., maps incl. endpapers; 24 cm. Freuchen traveled the Arctic, married an Inuit woman, lost a leg to frostbite. Not your National Geographic fluff. Stock# 39,140. Good+, blue cloth covers stamped in blue; spine faded/ no dj. Participated in mapping the as yet unexplored northeast part of Greenland and crossed the Greenland ice cap, among many other adventures. (2582) Arctic exploration & history; autobiography; Eskimos; sociology, anthropology.
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- Bookseller
- The Owl at the Bridge (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39140
- Title
- Arctic Adventure: My Life in the Frozen North. Illustrated with Photographs and Maps.
- Author
- Freuchen, Peter, 1886-1957
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York, Farrar & Rinehart [1935].
- Keywords
- Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration and Discovery;
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