Etah and Beyond or life within twelve degrees of the Pole.
Book Description
First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 287; numerous illustrations from photographs, two full-page maps; very good in the original blue cloth, gilt. Signed by Macmillan twice, to each free endpaper.
Dealer Notes
An account of a voyage to Etah, North West Greenland, on the Bowdoin under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution and the National Geographic Society. As well as scientific work on terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity, the expedition erected a memorial at Cape Sabine to Greely's expedition. The expedition wintered in 1923-24 on Inglefield Gulf. Macmillan had previously accompanied Peary on his 1908-9 North Pole expedition.
Author
Macmillan, Donald Baxter.
Date
1927
Binding
Original cloth, gilt
Publisher
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company
Condition
See description
Pages
pp. xix, 287
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