MIKKELSEN, EJNAR.

Conquering The Arctic Ice.

London: William Heinemann, 1909.

8vo. In publisher's original grey cloth with an image of a polar bear in white and titles in black to upper part of front board. Gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt and the others uncut. Binding with light wear, hinges a bit weak. First four leaves with stamp to lower margin. Internally nice and clean. XVIII, 470 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates and illustrations from the author's expeditions including the folding map showing routes of Arctic exploration. 

First edition of Mikkelsen’s account of the Anglo-American Polar Expedition (1906–1908) he co-led by Ernest de Koven Leffingwell which wintered off Flaxman Island, Alaska, in 1906–07. They lost their ship but in a sledge journey over the ice they found the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean 105 km offshore, where the sea's depth increased from 50 meters to more than 690 meters.

Order-nr.: 63641