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THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THEIR DISCOVERY AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION
by Greely, A.W Major-General
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
George G. Harrap & Company Ltd, 1929. Cloth. Fair. 1st UK Edition; 222pp, illustrated, 28 b/w illustrations, colour folding map. Red cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. An account of "the discovery and industrial evolution" of the Polar regions by a Civil War hero & North polar explorer who eventually was responsible for laying thousands of miles of telegraph cable in the U.S. Signal Corp. Greely covers Arctic discoveries prior to 1800; the Northwest Passage; Bering Sea; Arctic Alaska and Polar Canada; Kane Sea; Greenland; Iceland; Arctic Asia; etc. [Ricks: p.112]. Small tear, creases to large coloured folding map as expected. Shelfware, spine sunned, frontispiece loose. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2149. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2149
- Title
- THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THEIR DISCOVERY AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION
- Author
- Greely, A.W Major-General
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Company Ltd
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- BZDB349 qpolarq polar books antarctic book arctic book Artic/Arctic, Antartic/Antarctic Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Greely, A.W Major-General THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THEIR DISCOVERY AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION.
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