THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THEIR DISCOVERY AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION.

Greely, A.W Major-General

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1928

About this Item

1st Edition; x, 270pp, illustrated, 28 b/w illustrations, Blue cloth covers with blue titling. An account of "the discovery and industrial evolution" of the Polar regions by a Civil War hero & North polar explorer who eventually was responsible for laying thousands of miles of telegraph cable in the U.S. Signal Corp. Greely covers Arctic discoveries prior to 1800; the Northwest Passage; Bering Sea; Arctic Alaska and Polar Canada; Kane Sea; Greenland; Iceland; Arctic Asia; etc. [Ricks: p.112]. Ex Libris, library number to spine, library stamps, some erased by black ink, to page edges, prelims and rear ep. Old sellotape repairs to title page. Shelfware, spine loosening, pages loosening at beginning of book, lacking coloured map at end of book. Fair Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2148. Seller Inventory # 2148

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: ...

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition