Four Years in the White North

[xiv], 426 pp. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Illustrations from photographs by the author. Arctic Bibliography 10673: "Narrative of the Crocker Land expedition, 1913-1917, under D.B. MacMillan, for exploration and mapping of Crocker Land and other unexplored lands between Axel Heiberg and Parry Islands, and for scientific studies. Account of the day-to-day life of the party, and of trips from headquarters at Etah, on northwest Greenland across Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands to the reported site of Crocker Land, in the north polar sea; subsequent trips to Humboldt Glacier northwest of Etah, to King Christian Island, and along coast of Ellesmere Island from Cape Sabine to Clarence Head. Appendices contain W.E. Ekblaw's narratives of his trips, including that to Lake Hazen, northern Ellesmere Island, and his account of vegetation around Etah; also a list (with notes) of thirty-two species of birds observed by D.B. MacMillan; and statements concerning possible existence of land in the polar sea."