$360 LOST IN THE ARCTIC Being The Story Of The 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912.MIKKELSEN, Ejnar.1st Edition.Heinemann, London, 1st edn., 1913 large folding map in rear. B&W plates,

LOST IN THE ARCTIC Being The Story Of The 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912.MIKKELSEN, Ejnar.1st Edition.Heinemann, London, 1st edn., 1913 large folding map in rear. B&W plates, original silver-stamped green cloth with mottling to front board, Staining to lower edge first 8 pages, First Edition of the English Translation. Account of the expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland to recover the written records of the ill-fated Denmark expedition of 1906-08, which had been led by Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen. Together with his engineer Iversen as his sole companion, Mikkelsen undertook a series of harrowing sledge journeys, during which they succeeded in finding the aforementioned records and also disproved the existence of Peary Channel. When they returned to Shannon Island they found the rest of the crew had left (they had returned home on a whaler). Finding provisions and a small cottage made from salvaged timber from the icebound ship the 'Alabama', the pair managed to survive two winters before being rescued by a Norwegian whaler in 1912. $360 Ex libris Graeme Claridge

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LOST IN THE ARCTIC Being The Story Of The 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912.MIKKELSEN, Ejnar.1st Edition.Heinemann, London, 1st edn., 1913 large folding map in rear. B&W plates, original silver-stamped green cloth with mottling to front board, Staining to lower edge first 8 pages, First Edition of the English Translation. Account of the expedition to the northeast coast of Greenland to recover the written records of the ill-fated Denmark expedition of 1906-08, which had been led by Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen. Together with his engineer Iversen as his sole companion, Mikkelsen undertook a series of harrowing sledge journeys, during which they succeeded in finding the aforementioned records and also disproved the existence of Peary Channel. When they returned to Shannon Island they found the rest of the crew had left (they had returned home on a whaler). Finding provisions and a small cottage made from salvaged timber from the icebound ship the 'Alabama', the pair managed to survive two winters before being rescued by a Norwegian whaler in 1912. $360 Ex libris Graeme Claridge<br />
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BARKING MAD BOOKS - New Zealand's premier specialist, rare, antiquarian, second hand & out-of-print bookshop & mail order service. Colin Monteath's collection of quality titles on Antarctica, Arctic, polar, mountain, Himalaya, mountaineering, rock climbing, natural history, travel and exploration books. - For sale in New Zealand dollars Contact colin@hedgehoghouse.com