The first crossing of Spitsbergen : being an account of an inland journey of exploration and survey, with descriptions of several mountain ascents, of boat expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a voyage to North-East-land, the Seven Islands, down Hinloopen Strait, nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an almost complete circumnavigation of the main island / by Sir William Martin Conway, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., sometime Roscoe professor of Art, University College, Liverpool ; with contributions by J.W. Gregory, D. Sc., A. Trevor-Battye, and E.J. Garwood ; together with eight coloured plates reproduced in facsimile from sketches by H.E. Conway, two maps, and about one hundred full-page and text illustrations from photographs and sketches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conway, William Martin, Sir, 1856-1937, author.

Contributor:

Gregory, J. W. (John Walter), 1864-1932, contributor.

Trevor-Battye, Aubyn, 1855-1922, contributor.

Garwood, Edmund Johnston, 1864-1949, contributor.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spitsbergen Island (Norway)--Description and travel.

Spitsbergen Island (Norway).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 371 pages) : illustrations, 2 color maps, portrait.

Place of Publication:

London : J.M. Dent and Company ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introductory

London to the Arctic circle

To Spitsbergen ; The ascent of Mount Starashchin / by E.J. Garwood

Ice Fjord

Advent Bay to Cairn Camp

Across the mountains to Low Sound

Advent Vale to the Sassendal

The ascent of Sticky Keep

Ascent of Grit Ridge

The trident

Fulmar Valley

The ivory gate

Return to Waterfall Camp

Waterfall Camp to Ice Fjord

Mount Lusitania

By Sassen Bay

Back to Advent Point

Report upon Ekman Bay and Dickson Bay / by A. Trevor-Battye

At Advent Point

Advent Bay to the Seven Islands

Hinloopen Strait and Wijde Bay

The western bays of Spitsbergen

Horn Sound and home

The ascent of Mount Hedgehog, or Hornsunds Tind / by E.J. Garwood

Spitsbergen as a summer resort

Appendix The nomenclature of Spitsbergen.

Notes:

Includes index.

Numerous unnumbered plates throughout.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

"List of early maps of Spitsbergen": pages 363-364.

With contributions from J.W. Gregory, A. Trevor-Battye and E.J. Garwood.

OCLC:

894200413

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