- 846
Markham, Albert Hastings
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300 - 500 GBP
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Description
- A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia. London: Sampson Low [&c.], 1874
- Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (216 x 140mm.), xxiv, 320pp., 48pp. adverts, folding coloured map, 8 plates, illustrations, original pictorial blue pebble-grained cloth gilt, slipcase
Catalogue Note
After the admiralty refused Markham’s offer of Arctic service, he took advantage of a period of leave to join the whaler Arctic as second mate on its journey to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia in order to study ice conditions.