Marshall Rare Books
A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology. Reprinted and Presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875
FIRST EDITION, text diagrams, 2 folding lithograph plates, publishers blind stamped blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, 8vo, London, Murray, 1875
FIRST EDITION, text diagrams, 2 folding lithograph plates, publishers blind stamped blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, 8vo, London, Murray, 1875
A Collection of papers on Arctic geography, including:
On the Physical Structure of Greenland, by Dr. R. Brown
On the Best Means of reaching the Pole, by Admiral Baron von Wrangell
On the Discoveries of Dr. Kane, U.S.A., by Dr. Rink
The Arctic Current around Greenland. By Amiral C. Irminger, of the Danish navy
Notes on the State of the Ice, and on the Indications of Open Water from Behring Strait to Bellot Strait, along the Coasts of Arctic America and Siberia, including the Accounts of Anjou and Wrangell. By Vice-Admiral R. Collinson
Papers on the Greenland Eskimos. By Clements R. Markham
On the Descent of the Eskimo. By Dr. Rink
The Western Eskimo. By Dr. Simpson
Report of the Anthropological Institute…
In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between Greenland and Canada.These papers were selected for this volume as they were considered useful to the upcoming Arctic Expedition, but the original papers where rendered inaccessible due to “Transactions and Proceedings”.