The adventure of Wrangel Island

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.