Excerpt from Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic: With a New Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age On the 21st of August we set out for home, with the Miranda taking the Rigel in tow, but at the end of thirty-six hours, at midnight, when we were 300 miles from land and the sea was rolling heavily, the leak in the Miranda started anew, and she sounded the Signal of distress, informing us that it was necessary to aban don her, and that we should lie to with the cable with which we were towed still attached ...
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Excerpt from Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic: With a New Discussion of the Causes of the Ice Age On the 21st of August we set out for home, with the Miranda taking the Rigel in tow, but at the end of thirty-six hours, at midnight, when we were 300 miles from land and the sea was rolling heavily, the leak in the Miranda started anew, and she sounded the Signal of distress, informing us that it was necessary to aban don her, and that we should lie to with the cable with which we were towed still attached until the officers and the crew could be transferred to the schooner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Very Good. First Edition. c.1896. Hardcover. Green cloth, silver titles and cover illustration. 8vo. 407pp. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, rubbing to corners and spine-ends, some wear/soil to cloth, soil to edges, rear endpaper chipped, a couple small spots to first few pages otherwise contents unmarked.
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