Greenland By the Polar Sea. The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.
RASMUSSEN, KNUD.
London: William Heinemann, 1921. William Heinemann, 1921. First edition 1st Edition. 4to (25 x 19 cm). Original green cloth. Collation: [iv] v-xxiii, 1-326pp. + numerous illustrations in black and white, eight color plates, and maps. Binding has labels and vignette on front cover in silver. Title and author present on spine are also in silver. There is minor wear to ends of spine and corners. This is an uncut and partially unopened copy in excellent condition with only minor browning on end papers. Overall this is a very good copy. Very Good Original Cloth (Item ID: 0000140)
$450.00
"Narrative of a sledge journey to maie a geological survey of the north coast of Greenland, to establish the existence of Eskimo (Inuit) winter houses in the far North, and to make natural history collections. Rasmussen describes the route and ethnographic, geographic, hydrographic, zoological, botanical, biological, topographic, geological, cartographic and other resuts of the xnd Thule Expedition, 1916-18, to North Greenland…" (Arctic Bibliog. 14204).