JACKSON, Frederick G. The Great Frozen Land (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra). Narrative of a Winter Journey across the Tundras and a Sojourn among the Samoyads ... Edited from his Journals by Arthur Montefiore. London, Macmillan and Co., 1895.
8vo. Publisher's original blue cloth, image of deer blocked in gilt to upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine; pp. xvi, [2], 297, [2, advertisements]; frontispiece and numerous illustrations to text, 3 folding colour maps; some rubbing and a few minor marks to binding, occasional very light foxing, but still a good copy.
First edition. In 1892 Frederick Jackson began preparations for the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition to Franz Josef Land. To gain some experience of winter travel, he undertook a preliminary journey along the coast of the Barents Sea from Vaygach Island to Varanger Fjord. During this time, Jackson spent a year with the local Samoyed people, learning from them skills that proved invaluable for the success of the later Jackson-Harmsworth expedition. In Oslo, Nansen's brother Alexander had been helpful in testing and selecting skying equipment and sledges. It was Jackson who later more or less accidentally saved Fridtjof Nansen.
Arctic Bibliography 7940.
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