THE YOUNG FOLK'S BOOK OF POLAR EXPLORATION

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1929

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C. 1928. 8vo. xvii, 278p. Profusely illustrated with color Frontispiece and 102 black and white drawings and photos of paintings. Tan cloth stamped with green borders, with red letters on the front cover and the spine and with a color pictorial onlay to the front cover. Endpapers are black and white maps. Just touches of wear to the extremities with nothing rubbed through, cloth clean and bright, pictorial onlay in fine condition, all drawings and photos in fine condition, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket slightly soiled and stained but not price clipped. Edith Lea Elias (1879-1952) was the daughter of ship's chandler John Lumsden Elias and his wife, Mary Ann Lea. She was educated at the School for Girls, Grove Street, Liverpool, and at University College, Liverpool, Victoria University (subsequently Liverpool University), where she earned her BA in 1899, and her MA in 1902. She married boys' school story author Frank Elias, and settled with him at Felixstowe, moving to Merseyside after his death, in 1949. Elias herself died in 1952, bequeathing her collection of books on polar exploration to the Scott Polar Institute in Cambridge. "This clear and inspiring account tells the story of the first step North and the early expeditions, such as Captain Cook's, of the struggles to find a commercial route to the east through the North, of the Eskimos and their customs and daily lives, of Greenland explored, of Franklin and Nansen and Stefansson in the Arctic, and of Shackleton and Scott and Ahmundson in the Antarctic, of the attempts to reach the North Pole through the air, and of all the other great expeditions to both polls through the final conquests. A very fine book on polar exploration for young adults.…

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Titel
THE YOUNG FOLK'S BOOK OF POLAR EXPLORATION
Autor
Elias, E.L. [Edith Lea, 1879-1952]
Verlag
Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Veröffentlichungsjahr
1929
Zustand
Near Fine
Schutzumschlag
Very Good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch

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