haig thomas david (3 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. 78pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. Laid in is a typed letter Signed by Willam Cookson and addressed to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. Contributions by Michael Hamburger, Jonathan Griffin, Gerhard Beckmann, David Harsent, Peter Dent, Thomas Vandenberg, Cal Clothier, Keith Bosley, Kevin Crossley-Holland, Eileen Labrom, Wallace Kaufman, K. Crowhurst, Peter Dale, Ian Haig, Peter Murphy, and J. Hayles.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good overall. 8vo, Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, pp265-291 with folding map, as well as an Expedition to the Central Andes of Peru by J.V. Harrison. Original blue printed wrappers.

8vo. 20.5cm, 292p., x,(11)-292p., plus frontis and 15 plate illustrations, 3 maps, index, blue cloth, spine title stamped in the black, a near fine copy, rare. (Ar). A.B. 6480. Narrative of the author's year in North Greenland, 1937-38, during which he sledged across Ellesmere, Axel Heilberg and Ringnes Islands and, with R.A. Hamilton, surveyed the southeast coast of Ellesmere Island. His narrative includes an entertaining and informative account of the Polar Eskimos, of travelling by the Eskimo method of living off the land; remarks on the birds, and animals seen on Ellesmere, on the geography of Heilberg and the Ringnes Islands; and the discovery of Haig-Thomas Island.