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1898 Life and Explorations of Fridtjof Nansen
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
In the original green cloth binding.
This copy is undated. Dated here using Jisc, from a copy held at the Natural History Museum Library.
Illustrated with fourteen monochrome plates, and a map, alongside numerous in-text images.
A detailed account of the life and explorations of Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen, a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the Fatherland League.
With chapters on Greenland, Arctic equipment, crossing polar regions, Arctic exploration, and more.
Publisher's advertisements to rear.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight cockling to spine. Prize bookplate from London Diocesan Juvenile Branch to front paste down, previous owner's faint pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. One or two very slight handling marks to boards. Front hinge cracked, but holding. Internally, generally firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in places, but holding. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot and one or two handling marks, heavier to first and last few leaves.
Very Good
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