ISBN: 9780802057624 - overland to starvation cove: with the inuit in search of franklin, 1878-1880 (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition in English, Univ. of Toronto Press (1987). 261pp, with numerous illustrations within the text and an extensive introduction by William Barr. Aside from foxing to fore & top edges of text block the book remains in excellent shape with clean text, no inscriptions, no wear to binding and very little trace of use to blue cloth boards (all corners sharp). The dust wrapper displays some sunning to spine and minor hint of use to the crown otherwise in highly pleasing condition. Please see 12 pictures attached for a closer look at content and condition.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First English Edition. "In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artiist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. The Schwatka expedition was prompted by rumours among the Inuit that Franklin had left a cache of documents in a cairn somewhere in the vicinity of King William Island. Klutschak's absorbing account of the journey overland through an unexplored part of the Keewatin district tells the story of the expedition and its findings, including large numbers of skeletal remains overlooked by the McClintock expedition and some first-hand accounts from the Inuit of the last days of the Franklin expedition. Includes some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the local native peoples." - dust jacket. First published in German in 1881. xxxi, [3], [5]-261 p. Index. Footnotes. References. Map. Black and white illustrations. Book clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Average wear to dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example. ; 8vo.…