Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. 287; text in Norwegian; frontis. and other b&w photo. illusts., sketch map and one folding map at rear; very good in original leather-backed boards, gilt, slight rubbing.
Dealer Notes
AB 17312 & 17294. Sverdrup was scientific director on Amundsen’s Maud expedition from 1918-25. His account covers the last three years of the expedition, with a long final section that describes his and Oscar Wisting’s 1921 sledge journey around the Chukotsk Peninsula.
Author Sverdrup, Harald U.
Date 1926
Binding Original leather-backed boards, gilt
Publisher Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
Pages 287

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