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    By Fridtjof Nansen; Hubert Majendie Gepp [trans.]
    London   Longmans, Green, and Co.
    7.5" by 5" xii, 452pp
    A calf-bound copy of this remarkable account from Fridtjof Nansen of the first crossing across Greenland's inland ice.
    By Fridtjof Nansen; Hubert Majendie Gepp [trans.]

    1898 The First Crossing of Greenland

    London   Longmans, Green, and Co.
    7.5" by 5" xii, 452pp
    A calf-bound copy of this remarkable account from Fridtjof Nansen of the first crossing across Greenland's inland ice.
    £45.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 978Y53
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    Illustrated, Leather Binding

    A new impression of this work. 

    Bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers.

    Illustrated with a frontispiece, full-page sketch map and numerous in-text illustrations. 

    Fridtjof Nansen is considered a legend of Norway, gaining prominence throughout his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founder of the Fatherland League. He led a number of Arctic expeditions and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1922 for his relief work after World War I. 

    In this volume he offers a fascinating account of the expedition that became the first to cross Greenland's inland, in which he led five of his companions.

    Condition

    Bound in half calf, with marbled paper covered boards and endpapers. Externally, smart, with majority of spine title leather worn off and with rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with light spots to the front and rear blanks. Ownership inscription to the front endpaper.

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