The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe

486, 6, 4 pp. Arctic Bibliography 6733. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and decor on spine, gilt decor of Inuit with dog and dogsled on front board. With additional chapters and one hundred and sixty-three illustrations. Contains a characterization (based on literature) of arctic lands, the various zones, climate and vegetation, the land mammals and birds, the seas and marine animals; regional sketches of exploration and general information (Iceland, Spitzergen, Jan Mayen, Bear Island, Novaya Zemlya); chapters on the peoples (Lapps, Samoyeds, Ostyaks, Yakuts, Tungus, Kamchadals, Chukchis, Eskimos, and Indians), the Russians' conquest of Siberia, their fur trade explorations, on the works of Wrangel and Steller; Kamchatka Peninsula, Bering Sea, Alaska; the Hudson's Bay Company's fur trade; arctic exploration from the time of the Norsemen to Hayes, 1860; and a section on Greenland.