Innocents in the Arctic

By Colin Bull — Signed

1st Edition, 1st Printing, Signed by Colin Bull. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, 2005. Large 8vo, [xviii]. 254pp. Index. Illustrated with b/w & color, one fold-out diagram. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket—as new. Includes an excellent photographic record in black-and-white prints of the expedition, plus 16 color photos of individuals and scenery of the field areas worked. An 8-page index provides a helpful guide to details in the text.

The intent of the expedition was to explore a remote area of the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago. The expedition had several road blocks including inadequate financial support to procuring a highly unsuitable expedition ship, inappropriate field gear, and miserable weather in the area of their field work. A mix-up here and there resulted in forgetting to take along thermometers, somewhat uncertain assignments of duties of the field team, no means of communication, and shortages of food. On the positive side, there was valuable scientific information resulting from this 10-man expedition in the summer of 1951. An often times humorous narrative by Colin Bull.