Jacket lacking; corners bumped. Boards smudged. Spine stiff, creased, dimpled with wear spots. First printing: same date on the copyright and title pages, confirmed by owner's marks dated 1911. Margins toned. Photographic plates. Tissue guard over the frontispiece.

Borup won fame and cemented his career with his trip to the North Pole with Peary. He was appointed the curator of the American Museum of Natural History shortly after this book was published. He was named to lead a trip from Nova Scotia to Grinnell Land: a high land and ice mass on Baffin Island, part of the newly organized Nunavit Territories of Canada which broke off from the NorthWest Territories just before the end of the 20th century. Unfortunately, however, he died at the age of 27 prior to the launch of this expedition for the National Geographic Society.

And so what was to have been an illustrious career was cut short by a canoe mishap. This is his only book.