Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
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NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Eskimo Life. Translated by Wi...
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NANSEN, Fridtjof (1861-1930). Eskimo Life. Translated by William Archer. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. 8vo. 16 plates. Original gilt-decorated green cloth (spine gently darkened, spine slightly skewed). FIRST EDITION in English containing detailed sociological and cultural commentary on the Eskimo in Greenland as observed by Nansen in the late nineteenth century. A scarce title in this condition. Arctic Bib. 11979.
