GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a large size vintage hardback FIRST EDITION entitled “To the Arctic!” subtitled “The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times to the Present,” by Jeannette Mirsky, with an Introduction by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and 31 photographic and other illustrations and 8 maps, including a large fold-out map of the North Polar Regions at the back of the book.

It was published by Allan Wingate, of London & New York, in MCMXLIX and is the 1949 FIRST EDITION (stated).

The contents include:

·       Arctic Scenery

·       Quest and Conquest

·       Earliest Recorded Northern Explorers: the Greeks and the Vikings

·       The Paths to Cathay

·       The Dutch in the Arctic

·       Smeerenburg and the Whale-Oil Rush

·       Hudson and his Strait; Baffin and his Bay

·       Russia: the Great Northern Expedition

·       After the Great Northern Expedition

·       The British Attack the Arctic

·       Franklin’s Last Voyage

·       The Mystery of the Missing Ships: the Franklin Search

·       The Route to the North

·       Franz Josef Land

·       The International Circumpolar Stations

·       Laying a Ghost: the Jeannette and the Fram

·       Greenland

·       The Northeast and Northwest Passages

·       Jones Sound and Beaufort Sea

·       To The Pole

·       Flying in the Arctic

The book measures 9.5 inches x 6.5 inches x 1.3 inches and has 334 pages + an xviii (18) page Index (+ photographic illustrations). 

The book is in good, neat condition for its age, with minor wear/bumps and is faded to the original cloth hardback cover, with a previous owner’s signature at the front, foxing near the covers/rims, and no other ink or pencil markings in the book. The binding is good with no loose or missing pages.  There is no dust-jacket.

A wonderfully illustrated vintage FIRST EDITION.

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