First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey With Description of Several Mountain Ascents of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord of a Voyage to North-East-Land the Seven Islands Down Hinloopen Stra

Excerpt from The First Crossing of Spitsbergen: Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey With Description of Several Mountain Ascents of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord of a Voyage to North-East-Land the Seven Islands Down Hinloopen Strait Nearly to Wiches Land and Into Most<br><br>The maps wlzic/z accompany tlzis volume were eu graved for tlze Royal Geograp/zical Society and are lzere reproduced oy its permission. ''two illustrations made from drawings oy Mr. 4. D. Maccormicé my old Himalayan companion originally appeared in t/ze Alpine yournal and I am indented to fire Editor of that puolication for permission to use tlzem. I must also not omit to tlzané Mr. Trenor - Battye for tlze drawing of Wiclzes Land w/zic/z is nere reproduced.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.