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BOOK CATEGORY: Arctic Exploration Berg, Kåre; Devig, Thor N.; Johansen, Øystein Kock; & Ulven, Henrik Norwegian Maritime Explorers and Expeditions Over the Past Thousand Years Description: 175, [1] pp. Numerous illustrations, many photos and illustrations in color. Includes sources. Maps included for each expedition. Prepared to mark the 1000th anniversary of Eiriksson's discovery of North America. Descriptions of 10 expeditions: Ottar the Viking's voyage to Wessex, Leif Eiriksson's discovery of America, Jens Munk 's search for the Northwest Passage, Nansen and the 1st Fram expedition, C. A. Larsen's two Jason voyages to the Antarctic, Otto Sverdrup 's 2nd Fram expedition to North Canada, Amunden's South Pole expedition, and Heyerdahl's experimental voyages in boats of balsa wood (Kon-Tiki), papyrus(Ra 1 & 2), and reed (Tigris). Brier, Howard, M. Sky Freighter Description: 277 pp. Silver cloth binding. A story of bush pilots who fly freight to the radium mines of Arctic Canada. Edward H. Smith, Floyd M. Soule, Olav Mosby The Marion and General Green Expeditions to Davis Strait and Labrador Sea Under Direction of the United States Coast Guard 1928-1931-1933-1934-1935. Scientific Results Part 2 Description: vi, 260 pp. With maps, charts, and tables, many folding, one in color. Fitzhugh, William (ed.) Prehistoric Maritime Adaptiations of the Circumpolar Zone Description: x, 406 pp. With biographical notes, index of names, index of subjects. Black cloth, title and emblem stamped in white, charts, maps, tables. Would be near fine but for a slightly musty odor. VG/VG Merrick, Elliott Frost and Fire Description: 334 pp. Orange cloth. Scarce dustjacket is price-clipped, has lightly sunned spine, but very little edge wear. NF/GVG Osgood, Wilfred Hudson; Preble, Edward Alexander; Parker, George Howard The Fur Seals and Other Life of The Pribilof Islands, Alaska, in 1914 Description: 172 pp. Offprint from Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Volume XXXIV, 1914. Illustrated with 18 black & white plates, numerous charts and tables, with 23 maps, some folding. Includes bibliography and description of maps. The report was commissioned to evaluate the effects of a federally imposed closed season on the Pribilof Islands seal herd enacted in 1912, and to provide an unbiased statement of fact to assist Congress in preparation of any additional legislation it might care to enact before the original act expired in 1917. Handwritten title on spine, and original owner's name on front cover, a previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Edges of wrapper chipped with 4 or 5 tears, 1" of lower spine missing. Vaughan, Richard Northwest Greenland: A History Description: 208 pp. Illustrated with 16 black and white plates and 2 maps. With bibliography and index. Integrates the people and their habitat through time. |
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