The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States.". Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Open Polar Sea: A Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole in the Schooner "United States."

8vo., 21.5cm, The First Edition, xxiv,454p., engraved frontis portrait, 9 plates from engravings, (inc. 3 colour maps), original plum brown cloth, gilt spine titles and vignette, gilt image of walrus on upper cover, light yellow endpapers, previous owners inscription on the free fly, a fine sound copy. (ar). AB 6795 "A narrative of the Hayes Arctic Exploring Expedition of 1860-61 into the region of Smith Sound, designed to extend northward the explorations of the Second Grinnell Expedition. The expedition wintered at Port Foulke, and conducted sledge journeys along the coastlines of Greenland and Ellesmere Island". He was a strong believer in the `open polar sea' theory.