DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
ISBN10: 1552388751, ISBN13: 9781552388754, [publisher: University of Calgary, Calgary] Softcover Translated from the German by William Barr. Several maps, some black & white illustrations. 643 pages. Thick 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, (2016). Faint pencil mark at bottom outer edge of pages, otherwise a fine copy. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
Calgary: University of Calgary, Date: 2016. paperback. near fine. Translated from the German by William Barr. Several maps, some black & white illustrations. 643 pages. Thick 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, (2016). Faint pencil mark at bottom outer edge of pages, otherwise a fine copy.<br/> <br/> 2016. University of Calgary ISBN 1552388751 US
Calgary University of Calgary 2016 paperback Near fine Translated from the German by William Barr. Several maps, some black & white illustrations. 643 pages. Thick 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, (2016). Faint pencil mark at bottom outer edge of pages, otherwise a fine copy.
Calgary: University of Calgary, Date: 2016. paperback. near fine. Translated from the German by William Barr. Several maps, some black & white illustrations. 643 pages. Thick 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, (2016). Faint pencil mark at bottom outer edge of pages, otherwise a fine copy.<br/> <br/> 2016. University of Calgary ISBN 1552388751 9781552388754 [US]
ISBN10: 1552388751, ISBN13: 9781552388754, [publisher: University of Calgary, Calgary] Softcover Translated from the German by William Barr. Several maps, some black & white illustrations. 643 pages. Thick 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, (2016). Faint pencil mark at bottom outer edge of pages, otherwise a fine copy. [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
Bessels, Emil (Original Author), and Barr, William (Translated by)
USD
42.06
Midtown Scholar Bookstore via Alibris /Alibris
University of Calgary Press 2016 Paperback Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
ISBN10: 1552388751, ISBN13: 9781552388754, [publisher: University of Calgary Press] Softcover Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized. [Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
ISBN10: 1552388751, ISBN13: 9781552388754, [publisher: University of Calgary Press 11/23/2016] Softcover Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73 5.03 [Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2016]
ISBN10: 1552388751, ISBN13: 9781552388754, [publisher: University Of Calgary Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Emil Bessels was chief scientist and medical officer on George Francis Hall's ill-fated American North Pole Expedition of 1871-73 on board the ship Polaris. Bessels' book, translated from the German in its entirety for the first time, is one of only two first-hand accounts of the voyage, and it is the only first-hand account of the experiences of the group which stayed with the ship after it ran afoul of arctic ice, leaving some of its crew stranded on an ice floe. Bessels and the others spent a second winter on shore in Northwest Greenland, where the drifting, disabled ship ran aground. Hall died suspiciously during the first winter, and Bessels is widely suspected of having poisoned him. Bill Barr has uncovered new evidence of a possible motive.Polaris includes considerable detail which does not appear elsewhere. It is the only account of the expedition which includes rich scientific information about anthropology, geology, flora and fauna. It provides much more information than other accounts on the Greenland settlements Polaris visited on her way north. Bessels' is the only published first-hand account of the second wintering of part of the ship's complement on shore at Polaris House, near Littleton Island, and of that party's attempt at travelling south by boat until picked up by the ...
DISCLOSURE:
When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, Amazon and Alibris.
