Author: Cook, Frederick A.
Description: xxi, [2], 321 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs; color frontispiece from a painting by Russell W. Porter; maps & drawings in the text. 9x6, original cloth, pictorial cover label, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First British Edition.
Mountaineering experiences and adventures in Alaska by the man who was to claim to be the first to reach the North Pole, a pronouncement bitterly contested by Robert E. Peary. This book was published in February, 1908, two months before he purportedly reached the pole. Arctic Bib. 3390.
Place Published: London
Publisher Name:Hodder & Stoughton
Date Published: 1908
Description: xxi, [2], 321 pp. Illustrated with plates from photographs; color frontispiece from a painting by Russell W. Porter; maps & drawings in the text. 9x6, original cloth, pictorial cover label, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First British Edition.
Mountaineering experiences and adventures in Alaska by the man who was to claim to be the first to reach the North Pole, a pronouncement bitterly contested by Robert E. Peary. This book was published in February, 1908, two months before he purportedly reached the pole. Arctic Bib. 3390.
Place Published: London
Publisher Name:Hodder & Stoughton
Date Published: 1908
Condition report
Some rubbing to spine and extremities; joints cracking at endpapers, offset to free endpapers, bookplate, else very good.
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Travel & Exploration - Maps & Atlases
1:00 PM PT - Jan 25th, 2007
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