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Ice-Bound on Kolguev. A chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe, to which is added a record of the natural history of the island. With numerous ... C. Whymper, and the author, and three maps.
Ice-Bound on Kolguev. A chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe, to which is added a record of the natural history of the island ... With numerous illustrations by J. T. Nettleship, C. Whymper, and the author, and three maps.
British Library, Historical Print Editions
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The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World.
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Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochford.; Nettleship, Aubyn Bernard Rochford Trevor.; Whymper, Charles;
1895.
xxviii. 458 p.; 8°.
10470.f.37.
British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.
The HISTORY OF EUROPE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection includes works chronicling the development of Western civilisation to the modern age. Highlights include the development of language, political and educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. The selection documents periods of civil war, migration, shifts in power, Muslim expansion into Central Europe, complex feudal loyalties, the aristocracy of new nations, and European expansion into the New World.
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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition
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British Library
Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochford.; Nettleship, Aubyn Bernard Rochford Trevor.; Whymper, Charles;
1895.
xxviii. 458 p.; 8°.
10470.f.37.
608 pages, Paperback
First published May 24, 2006
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January 3, 2013
Did you ever pore over an atlas and dream about those obscure fragments of land floating in the frozen seas off the extremities of northern Russia? Did you ever fantasise about living in a simpler and more heroic age, when large areas of the world were still terra incognita, and when Russia was still a Tsarist empire and a land of wonder and romance?
Well, if you did, you will enjoy this book as much as I did. Especially if you add an interest in the flora and fauna of the High Arctic. There is even a bit of humour too, as the euphoniously named author takes with him a stout and simple Anglo Saxon youth who plays the Watson to his Holmes.
Kolguev Island is no longer a mysterious terra nullius for me. I was there in my imagination, 100 years ago, sharing the beauty and the danger of the landscape with Mr Trevor-Battye, his companion, and the Siberian natives.
Well, if you did, you will enjoy this book as much as I did. Especially if you add an interest in the flora and fauna of the High Arctic. There is even a bit of humour too, as the euphoniously named author takes with him a stout and simple Anglo Saxon youth who plays the Watson to his Holmes.
Kolguev Island is no longer a mysterious terra nullius for me. I was there in my imagination, 100 years ago, sharing the beauty and the danger of the landscape with Mr Trevor-Battye, his companion, and the Siberian natives.
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