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A. Parker's Books
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FIRST PRINTING, FIRST EDITION
Berens, S. L. ed.
The "Fram" Expedition. Nansen in the Frozen World; Preceded by a biography of the great explorer and copious extracts from Nansen's "First Crossing of Greenland," also an account by Eivind Astrup, of life among people near the pole, and his Jouney Across Northern Greenland with Lieutenant R. E. Peary, U.S.N. Followed by a brief history of the principal Earlier Arctic Explorations from the ninth century to the Peary Expedition, including those of Cabot, Frobisher, Bering, Sir John Franklin, Kayne, Hayes, Hall, Nordenskjold, Nares, Schwatka, DeLong, Greely, and others.
Philadelphia:A. J. Holman & Co., 1897.
8vo., (6 3/4 by 9 1/2 inches), 560 pp.Blue embossed and illustrated publisher's cloth, profusely illustrated with engravings, no dust jacket. Wear to top of spine and bottom edge of cover, some fading to covers and toning, hinge starting.PH F2V.
