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Burroughs Polly The Great Ice Ship Bear: Eighty-Nine Years in Polar Seas
New York, U. S. A. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 1970 First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
Grey boards with blue titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket. Ex library usual stamps marks etc. 104 pp. Map endpapers. Illustrated in b/w with photos, maps, and illus throughout text. Bibliography. "The Bear was first purchased by the US government in 1884 to rescue the expedition led by Lieutenant Greely at the northern tip of Greenland. For more than 42 years the Bear patrolled the waters of the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. In both 1933 and 1939 she accompanied Admiral Byrd on his expeditions to Antarctica." . Overall despite its status as an Ex-Lib copy this is a Clean, Tight and Bright copy. ; Ex-Library; Large, slim 8vo
Price:
12.00 GBP
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