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"Geographical Discovery and Exploration in the Queen Elizabeth Islands", Canadian Government

Subject: History - Canadian Exploration

Period: 1955 (published)

Publication: Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys

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Size:
6.5 x 9.8 inches
16.5 x 24.9 cm
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Definitive work describing virtually every exploratory discovery in this Arctic region. Maps plot the routes of explorers from the Vikings to those searching for Sir John Franklin. Geographical Branch Memoir 3, by Andrew Taylor, 172 pp +vii, 43 maps, 29 page bibliography. Original paper covers.

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Condition: A

Cover and fore-edges soiled, spine sunned. Contents very good.

Estimate: $40 - $50

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Closed on 6/12/2002

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