The Great White North: The Story of Polar Exploration
by Helen S. Wright
Publisher: The Macmillan co. 1910
ISBN/ASIN: B0006AFY8M
Number of pages: 623
Description:
The material for this book has been gathered from the rich storehouse of Arctic Literature. The chief labour of its composition lay in elimination rather than construction. The great field I have endeavoured to present can hardly be brought with justice to the narrow bounds of a single cover, but I have conscientiously endeavoured to bring to the reader's mind an accurate record of brilliant deeds that go to make the history of the far North, and have let the explorers themselves tell the story of how these deeds have been accomplished.
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