In the Heart of the Arctics

By Nicholas Senn

Chicago. W.B. Conkey Co., 1907. First Edition. 12m,. 336pp. frontis with 74 plates and illustrations from photographs, publisher’s dark green cloth, top page edges gilt, bright gilt titles and pictorial decorations on cover and spine, prior owner’s label and signature, inscription dated 1907 by Arthur While and The Author, A Very Good Copy ­ Scarce.

—Arctic Bibliography 15740.

Journal of the surgeon and a passenger on the supply ship Erik which accompanied the Roosevelt, Peary’s vessel, as far as Ethah, Greenland, in the summer of 1905. Describes the West Greenland ports-of-call, the country in North Greenland, walrus-hunting, and the Polar Eskimos in detail.