ICE-PACK AND TUNDRA AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEARCH FOR THE JEANNETTE AND A SLEDGE JOURNEY THROUGH SIBERI
de Gilder, William H
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New York: Scribner's Son, 1883. xi,[1],344,[4]pp. plus three maps. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Minor shelf wear. Unobtrusive library stamp to front and rear flyleaves, loss to top of rear flyleaf, removed library pocket on rear pastedown. Internally very clean. About very good. First edition of Gilder's narrative of the expedition to recover the missing U.S.S. Jeannette. Gilder, a soldier and journalist, accompanied the voyage as a correspondent for the New York Herald whose proprietor, James Gordon Bennett, also happened to be the owner of the missing vessel. The Jeannette was intended to travel through the Bering Strait, focusing on scientific observations of the region. It ran into heavy ice conditions, eventually sinking and forcing the men to evacuate into the unforgiving Arctic. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 5744.
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- ICE-PACK AND TUNDRA AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEARCH FOR THE JEANNETTE AND A SLEDGE JOURNEY THROUGH SIBERI
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- Gilder, William H
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- Scribner's Son
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- New York
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- 1883
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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