ESKIMO LIFE.
Translated by William Archer. Pp. xvi+350+24(publisher's catalogue, dated August 1893), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus 15 plates, text illustrations; tall demy 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, boards flecked and slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed, the fore-corners and spine extremities lightly worn; uncut; bookplate and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, two inked ownership inscriptions on half-title page (dated 23/2/[19]06 and Oct 1973), hinges starting, a couple of closed edge tears (one extending from bottom edge into last 4 lines of text pp. 87/8), advertisements browned, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1893. First edition. *In 1888 Nansen's team made the first successful crossing of Greenland's interior, spending several months living among the Inuit. The English translation includes revisions made by Nansen. The translator also 'requested and received Dr. Nansen's permission to suppress one or two especially nauseous details of Eskimo manners, which seemed to have no particular ethnological significance' [translator's preface]. Item #167218
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