ULTIMA THULE, FURTHER MYSTERIES OF THE ARCTIC

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good Minus in Chipped Dustjacket. Alexander Popini. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in., pp. 383. Illustrated with 21 maps, engravings, and black and white photographs. Blue boards with silver title to front and spine. Blue Roman ship design to front and rear endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Small bump to top of front joint. Sunning to edges and top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's signature to top of front free endpaper. Rubbing to edges and bottom spine of dustjacket. 2 in. x 1 in. chip to top of dustjacket spine; chips to bottom of dustjacket. Corner of bottom front flap clipped, but price ($3.50) is not clipped. AB 16871 OCLC 1494868. Thule is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. Modern interpretations have included Orkney, Shetland, northern Scotland, the island of Saaremaa (Ösel) in Estonia, and the Norwegian island of Smøla. In classical and medieval literature, Ultima Thule (Latin "farthermost Thule") acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world".
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