ARCTIC] SVERDRUP, OTTO. New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions . London: Longmans & Co., 1904. First Edition. Two volumes, original publisher cloth, with the folding maps in the sleeve at the rear of volume II. 9 1/2 x 6 inches (24 x 15 cm); xvi, 496 pp.; xii, 504 pp., with two maps in the sleeve at rear; with frontispieces and text illustrations after photographs. Light wear, generally a sound clean copy. Sverdrup started his Arctic expeditions with Nansen, and was given command of the Fram in 1893. He undertook a second expedition with the ship in 1898, and (unsuccessful in a circumnavigation of Greenland) overwintered on Ellesmere Island. He overwintered in the three successive years as well, charting a vast terrain, and discovering what are now named the Sverdrup Islands. Arctic Bibliography 17322. C
ARCTIC] SVERDRUP, OTTO. New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions . London: Longmans & Co., 1904. First Edition. Two volumes, original publisher cloth, with the folding maps in the sleeve at the rear of volume II. 9 1/2 x 6 inches (24 x 15 cm); xvi, 496 pp.; xii, 504 pp., with two maps in the sleeve at rear; with frontispieces and text illustrations after photographs. Light wear, generally a sound clean copy. Sverdrup started his Arctic expeditions with Nansen, and was given command of the Fram in 1893. He undertook a second expedition with the ship in 1898, and (unsuccessful in a circumnavigation of Greenland) overwintered on Ellesmere Island. He overwintered in the three successive years as well, charting a vast terrain, and discovering what are now named the Sverdrup Islands. Arctic Bibliography 17322. C
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