Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Threshold of the Unknown Region
The object of the present volume, which is partly reprinted from a series of articles in Ocean Highways, ' is to give the public a correct know ledge of the whole line of frontier separating the known from the unknown region round the North Pole, to recall the stories of early voyagers, to narrate the recent efforts of gallant adventurers of various nationalities to cross the threshold, to set forth the arguments in favour of a renewal Of Arctic exploration by England, and to enumerate.
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