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GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON. Three Years of Arctic Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84. 2 vols. 1886
GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON. Three Years of Arctic Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84. 43 plates; 9 maps, including one in Volume 2 rear cover pocket. 2 volumes. 8vo, original color-pictorial navy cloth, spine ends frayed. New York, 1886
- Notes: first edition. Undertaken during the First International Polar Year, the Greely expedition established a scientific base on Ellesmere Island for the exploration of that territory and northwest Greenland and attained a record 83°24''N. "As relief ships failed to reach them, members of the party made a march out of the Hall Basin area, all but seven dying of starvation before rescue at Cape Sabin, Smith Sound"--Arctic Bibliography 6118. Books on Ice 4.8.
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