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Simpson, Alexander
The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson. The Arctic Discoverer, by His Brother...
London Richard Bentley 1845, 1st Edition. Hardcover Very good. 1845, 1st Edition. (Hardcover) viii,424pp. Very good. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece portrait and folding map. Quarter leather and marbled boards with matching endpapers. Old repair on title page, otherwise a nice copy of a scarce title. A.B. 16116. Includes a detailed account of Dease & Simpson's explorations along the Arctic coast of America, and of Simpson's mysterious death. "Simpson was an explorer who could translate an overwhelming resolution by amazing personal exertion into magnificent achievement. Back is a man to admire, Simpson one to marvel at." - Mirsky - "To the Arctic!".
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