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An Arctic Boat Journey, in the Autumn of 1854
por HAYES, Isaac I
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Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1868. 12mo. 19.5cm, new edition, revised and illustrated, xxiii[1],,387p., with 14 engraved plates (inc. 2 maps), in the original green cloth, gilt spine titles, small gilt pictorial decoration on the upper cover, Beekman Pool's bookplate, a near fine copy. (Ar). A.B. 6790. Contains a brief outline of the Second Grinnell Expedition, which the author accompanied as surgeon; and, in detail, his account of a four-months journey, in the autumn of 1854, of a party from the expeditions winter quarters, to the regions of Rensselaer Harbor, towards Upernavik, and return; their boating and sledging along Smith Sound, and the west coast of Greenland. Includes comments on the physical features, botany, the hunting and the Inhuits of the region.
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- An Arctic Boat Journey, in the Autumn of 1854
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- HAYES, Isaac I
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- Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1868
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- arctic northern north polar journey travel expedition inhuit smith sound sledding greenland second grinnell expedition
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