MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.
A polar reconnaissance being the voyage of the “Isbjörn” to Novaya Zemlya in 1879 ... With maps and illustrations. London, C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.
8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 361, [1]; with frontispiece, 5 plates, 2 folding maps, and illustrations in the text; small tear to list of illustrations leaf (repaired to recto), occasional marks and creases, some foxing to maps; overall good in original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered and decorated in black and gilt, dark brown endpapers; wear to spine ends, joints, edges and corners, some marks to covers; bookplate of the ‘Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet’ and inscription ‘Signet Library’ to front pastedown.
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A polar reconnaissance being the voyage of the “Isbjörn” to Novaya Zemlya in 1879 ... With maps and illustrations.
First edition of this attractively illustrated account by the Arctic explorer Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918). ‘Markham went back to the Arctic in 1879 aboard the Isbjörn with Sir Henry Gore-Booth, as a guest on a private British sport-hunting expedition to Novaya Zemlya, returning with animal, plant and geological specimens. The expedition sailed along the west coast of Novaya Zemlya as far as its northern point, passed through Matochkin Shar to the east coast, then examined the ice in the direction of Franz Josef Land’ (Howgego). A polar reconnaissance opens with several chapters on previous voyages in the region, before describing the Isbjörn’s cruise, ending with appendices detailing the specimens collected.
Arctic Bibliography 10931.