Author: Bartlett, Robert A. & Hale, Ralph T
Description: [12], 329 pp. Plates from photographs, charts, etc. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition.
Presentation copy inscribed on front free endpaper, "To Good friend Ben Revett, whose friendship is worth having. From Robert A. Bartlett, New York, November 20th, 1916." The recipient is quite likely Ben Stanley Revett, the "Gold Dredge King," who made a fortune in the Colorado gold fields with the introduction of his device in 1905. The book iteself is a first-hand account of one of the century's worst exploration disasters, the 1913 Karluk expedition to chart the waters north of Alaska. Arctic Bib. 1112.
Place Published: Boston
Publisher Name:Small, Maynard & Co.
Date Published: [1916]
Description: [12], 329 pp. Plates from photographs, charts, etc. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition.
Presentation copy inscribed on front free endpaper, "To Good friend Ben Revett, whose friendship is worth having. From Robert A. Bartlett, New York, November 20th, 1916." The recipient is quite likely Ben Stanley Revett, the "Gold Dredge King," who made a fortune in the Colorado gold fields with the introduction of his device in 1905. The book iteself is a first-hand account of one of the century's worst exploration disasters, the 1913 Karluk expedition to chart the waters north of Alaska. Arctic Bib. 1112.
Place Published: Boston
Publisher Name:Small, Maynard & Co.
Date Published: [1916]
Condition report
Spine darkened, rubbing to extremities; foxing to page edges, else very good.
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Travel & Exploration - Maps & Atlases
1:00 PM PT - Jan 25th, 2007
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