The first crossing of Spitsbergen : being an account of an inland journey of exploration and survey,...
The first crossing of Spitsbergen : being an account of an inland journey of exploration and survey, with descriptions of several mountain ascents, of boat expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a voyage to North-East-land, the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an almost complete circumnavigation of the main island / by Sir William Martin Conway, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., sometime Roscoe professor of Art, University College, Liverpool ; with contributions by J.W. Gregory, D. Sc., A. Trevor-Battye, and E.J. Garwood ; together with eight coloured plates reproduced in facsimile from sketches by H.E. Conway, two maps, and about one hundred full-page and text illustrations from photographs and sketches.
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London : J.M. Dent & Company ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations, 2 color maps, portrait.
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online resource
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Introductory -- London to the Arctic circle -- To Spitsbergen ; The ascent of Mount Starashchin / by E.J. Garwood -- Ice Fjord -- Advent Bay to Cairn Camp -- Across the mountains to Low Sound -- Advent Vale to the Sassendal -- The ascent of Sticky Keep -- Ascent of Grit Ridge -- The trident -- Fulma...
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London : J.M. Dent & Company ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.
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England
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1897.
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The first crossing of Spitsbergen : being an account of an inland journey of exploration and survey, with descriptions of several mountain ascents, of boat expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a voyage to North-East-land, the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an almost complete c...
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
Includes index.
Numerous unnumbered plates throughout.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
With contributions from J.W. Gregory, A. Trevor-Battye and E.J. Garwood.
"List of early maps of Spitsbergen": pages 363-364.
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