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• ISBN: 9780874223514
• ISBN: 0874223512
• Physical Description: 297 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm
• Publisher: Pullman, Washington : Washington State University Press, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. To the Arctic : the Baldwin-Ziegler Expedition -- 2. Interlude: 1902-1906 -- 3. The Anglo-American Polar Expedition -- 4. Winter quarters at Flaxman Island -- 5. The Okpilak : "place of no willows" -- 6. The Canning and Hulahula rivers -- 7. Return to the Canning -- 8. Return north, 1909 -- 9. Mapping coastline and mountains, 1910-1911 -- 10. Exploration of the coastline continues, 1912 -- 11. Return north on the Mary Sachs, 1913-1914 -- 12. Post-Arctic life: 1914-1949 -- 13. The later years: 1950-1971 -- 14. Recognition -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Baldwin-Ziegler and AAPE members -- Appendix 2. Timeline -- Appendix 3. Okpilak sledge trip eqipment and food -- Appendix 4. Selected geographic names -- Appendix 5. Celsius-Fahrenheit conversion table.

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Subject:

Leffingwell, Ernest de K. (Ernest de Koven), 1875-1971.
Explorers > United States > Biography.
Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) > History.
Polar regions > Discovery and exploration.
Leffingwell, Ernest de K. (Ernest de Koven), 1875-1971
Discoveries in geography.
Explorers.
Alaska > Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Arctic Regions.
Polar regions.
United States.
Leffingwell, Ernest de Koven 1875-1971
Expedition
Arktis

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Biography.
History.