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HARRISON, Alfred H. (1865-1933). In Search of a Polar Continent 1905-1907. Toronto: The Musson Book Company Limited [and] London: Edward Arnold, 1908. 8vo. Profusely illustrated with plates and with folding map. xx, 1-292 pp. Publisher's full red cloth, front board and spine, in the rare publisher's unclipped dust jacket (price is on spine - cloth spine headcap a bit bumped, light offsetting to endleaves; jacket spine toned and chipped, some edgewear, chipping some marginal tears to jacket). A fine copy in a very good jacket. FIRST EDITION, IN THE SCARCE DUST JACKET. “Mr. Harrison's object was to explore the unknown region off the North American Coast of the Arctic Ocean, but he first travelled 1,800 miles by waterway through Northern Canada, till he arrived at the delta of the Mackenzie River." (from the front jacket panel). Arctic Bibliography 6693.