New Land Four Years in the Arctic Regions SVERDRUP, Otto [Ethel Harriet Hearn, translator] Polar Exploration,Transportation -- Maritime

4to. Pp. xvi, 496, xii, 504, plus 40 pages of publishers' advertisements. Two vols. Frontis. Vol I, black & white photographic portrait of the author; vol II, black & white photograph of the Members of the Expedition, behind tissue guards. Illustrated throughout with black & white photo reproductions and four maps in the text. Two large folded color maps in Vol. 2 pouch. Appendixes. Index. Translated from the Norwegian Nyt land: fire aar i arktiske egne. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering stamped on spine and silver illustration of sled dogs next to the Fram stamped on covers, black endpapers. Soiling to upper edges, rubbing to board edges and corners, minimal scattered foxing. Folded maps exceptionally crisp, perhaps never opened. The second Fram expedition of 1898-1902, commanded by Otto Sverdrup. Thwarted in his attempt to advance on the North Pole through Smith Sound, Sverdrup wintered initially in the area west of Ellesmere Island. Over the next three years the expedition sent out sledging parties to explore the area. Approximately 100,000 square miles of islands were surveyed and mapped.Includes four scientific appendices, not printed in the Norwegian edition, by Per Elisaeus Schei, Herman Georg Simmons and Edvard Bay. Arctic Bibliography:17322.