The Geography of The Polar Regions consisting of a General Characterization of Polar Nature and A Regionial Geography of the Arctic and the Antarctic.
New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. Hardcover. Gray boards. 259pp. very good. Item #57032
From the library of Robert Lloyd Lillestrand with his bookplate.
Lillestrand was an authority on celestial navigation, a process crucial to determining one's position on the drifting polar ice pack. He had published numerous papers on the technical points of navigation and on polar exploration, has co-led expeditions to the pole twice and has assisted nearly every polar expedition.
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