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A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888-89
by Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, Earl Of; Krech, Shepard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0295968826
- ISBN 13
- 9780295968827
- Seller
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About This Item
University of Washington Press, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean first edition in clean unchipped dust jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages are clean. No names, writing or marks. Liberally illustrated with photographs in full color and black and white. 207 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears. A beautiful book that examines Lor Lonsdale's epic trip through the heart of Canada, along the Arctic coast, up te Yukon River, and down the Alaskan coast and peninsula. He covered thousands of miles in one year. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888-89
- Author
- Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, Earl Of; Krech, Shepard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0295968826
- ISBN 13
- 9780295968827
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, Washington, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Hugh Lowther, Lonsdale, first edition, Arctic explorers, Arctic exploration, Victorian age exploration, Shepard Krech
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure/Travel;
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