Hardcover Cloth 940 pages with five maps. Condition Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Presumed First edition 1899. Worn black boards and gilt embossing with cover plate on this tight and sound copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Worn gilt top edge. Rough cut pages. Some weak hinges. Maps in very good condition. Edges have the usual yellowing. Pages are toned with the usual signs of wear and/or age. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

In 1897, the triumphant return of the Jackson–Harmsworth Arctic Expedition revived widespread enthusiasm for Polar exploration. Within days of the expedition's arrival in London, newspapers ranging from the Boy's Own Paper to the Graphic were full of articles relating to the endeavours and findings of this intrepid undertaking. The demand for information did not abate and, in 1899, this account by Frederick G. Jackson (1860–1938) of his travels in Franz Josef Land was published to wide acclaim.

Hailed by The Morning Post as 'a record of solid achievement accomplished by dint of steady perseverance in the face of hardship and difficulty', Jackson's journal describes a forbidding terrain of ice and snow. Illustrated by maps and numerous anthropological and zoological images.

Major Frederick George Jackson was a British Arctic explorer and a veteran of the Second Boer War and First World War.