Hunting with the Eskimos
de Whitney, Harry
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Hinges slightly cracked but sturdy, overall very good
- Librería
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Century Co, 1910. First edition. Frontispiece from photograph and 63 half-tone plates after photographgs by the author. xvi, 453 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Hinges slightly cracked but sturdy, overall very good. First edition. Frontispiece from photograph and 63 half-tone plates after photographgs by the author. xvi, 453 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Account of hunting adventures and the life style of the Eskimos in in the Arctic by this friend of Peary's and Cook's, described in his sub-title as "the battle for existence through the long Arctic night." A great hunting book, an exciting tale of Arctic adventure with close observations of the Eskimos, and also an important primary source regarding the Cook-Peary controvery, as Whitney was staying in Cook's house in Anootok in April of 1908 when Cook claimed to have reached the North Pole. The book is dedicated to Captain Robert Barlett, Captain of the Roosevelt on Peary's last attempt at the pole in 1908.
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- Librería
- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 57123
- Título
- Hunting with the Eskimos
- Autor
- Whitney, Harry
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Frontispiece from photograph and 63 half-tone plates after photographgs by the author. xvi, 453 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth. Hinges slightly cracked but sturdy, overall very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Century Co
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1910
- Palabras clave
- Big Game | Arctic / Antarctic
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