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Record #17915:

The problem of Meighen Island. Intended as a third chapter but suppressed in the publication of Unsolved mysteries of the Arctic / Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

Title: The problem of Meighen Island. Intended as a third chapter but suppressed in the publication of Unsolved mysteries of the Arctic / Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
Author(s): Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.
Date: 1939.
Publisher: New York: Privately printed for Mr Joseph Robinson
Abstract: Only 300 copies of this chapter, of which this is No.146, were printed.
Notes:

A special edition of Unsolved mysteries of the Arctic, with Introduction by Stephen Leacock and frontispiece by Rockwell Kent, was published by The Explorers Club in December 1938.

Keywords: 91(091) -- Exploration, history.
W -- Expeditions and exploration.
(*3) -- Arctic regions.
(*440) -- Northwest Territories.
(*464.4) -- Sverdrup Islands.
(*464.43) -- Meighen Island.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-SPC: (*41) : 91(091)
SPRI record no.: 17915

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