Letters from High Latitudes: Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1836 in the Schooner Yacht 'Foam' to Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924. Hardcover. 18mo. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #008218
Orig. green cloth. Red ribbon marker. xxxvi, 261 pp., [6 pp. ads]. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted and sunned, mild rubbing to joints and spine ends. "Was ever a book of travels, or a book of any sort, written in a livelier vein, or with animal spirits more abounding, than these Letters from High Latitudes?" (from the introduction) Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (21 June 1826 - 12 February 1902) was a British public servant and diplomat.
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