Three Years of Arctic Service; An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. First UK edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xxv, [2], 2-428; [3], iv-xii, [3], 2-444, [4] pp. Bound in navy cloth with a white decoration encircled in gold on each front board, gold lettering on the spines. Each volume illustrated by a frontispiece and in-text illustrations, volume one with sixteen plates and with four maps and one folding map; volume two with twenty-three plates, two folding maps, and a double-page map. Arctic Bibliography 6118. Greely and his team explored the north coast of Greenland during this expedition. Greely details their difficulties with navigating sea ice, starvation, and what life in the camp was like. The appendices contain geological data of the North Pole, observations of Inuit peoples, and contain information on birds and other animals native to the North Pole. Near Very Good. Item #000010707
Volume one lacking the free rear endpaper, plates show some foxing, volume two lacks the pocket map.
Price: $200.00