Greenland : by the Polar Sea : story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup by RASMUSSEN, KNUD - 1921

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. First edition. Undated but 1921. Fair in publisher's orginal green ribbed cloth, titles in green, mended spine splits, small spine chips. Tissue-guarded colored frontis. Eight Color Plates .Numerous b/w photographic plates. In-text maps. Rasmussen ( 1879-1933) Greenland/ Danish polar explorer, the 'father of Eskimology' , here chronicles his Second Thule Expedition (1916-1918) which set out to map a little-known area of Greenland's north coast but resulted in the loss of two lives. Front cover illustration of huskies pulling a sled partly erased. Color Folding map at rear. Quarto. 327p (p). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair.