The adventure of Wrangel Island
by STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, [1926]. With a photographic frontispiece, a further fifty photographs, maps and reproductions, and a folding coloured map. Original publisher's green cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Without dustwrapper. Rubbed. Endpapers browned, armorial bookplate of Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst to FEP The first English edition of an account of the ill-fated attempt to colonise Wrangel Island (1921-23) on behalf of the Canadian and British governments. The narrative is primarily based on the diary of Errol Lorne Knight, one of the five-member landing party. The expedition resulted in the deaths of four of the party, including Knight, due to a lack of sufficient supplies. Ada Blackjack, an Eskimo, was the sole survivor. Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst (1887-1975), Antarctica explorer and member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition. . First English edition. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ23787
- Title
- The adventure of Wrangel Island
- Author
- STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First English edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1926]
- Keywords
- Exploration, Travel
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Wareham, Dorset
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