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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1867. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Endeavouring to select from my abundant notes such scenes and incidents of adventure as seemed to me best calculated to bring before the mind of the reader not merely the history of our voyage but a general view of the Arctic regions-its scenery and its life with a cursory glance at those physical forces which in their results give characteristic expression to that remote quarter of the world. A day of months followed by a night of months where the mean annual temperature rises but little above zero must neces-sarily clothe the air and the landscape with a sentiment difficult to appreciate or I might perhaps say feel with-out actual observation. I shall be abundantiy rewarded if I have succeeded in impressing upon the reader’s mind with any degree of vividness the wonders and the grandeur of Nature as unfolded to us under the Arctic sky. The reader will observe that I have not attempted in any sense to write a work of Science. (SP)