8vo. 285pp, [3]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, a further 52 black and white photographic illustrations, a full-page sketch map, and a folding map to rear. Recent calf-backed green cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed. Occasional pencil marks. From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice 'Kenn' Back (b. 1942), meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey from 1963 to 2002, and a descendant of Arctic explorer George Back, with his bookplate to FEP.

The first edition of Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957) account of his participation as scientific director on the North Polar expedition of Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) aboard the Maud 1918-1925.