Polar Books
 Greely, A.W Major-General: THE POLAR REGIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THEIR DISCOVERY AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION. , London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., 1929.1st UK Edition; 222pp, illustrated, 28 b/w illustrations, colour folding map. Red cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. 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]. Small tear, creases to large coloured folding map as expected. Shelfware, spine sunned, frontispiece loose. (Book ref. 2149) £25.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Polar Books , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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