Author: PEARSON, HENRY & FEILDEN, H.W.:
Title: "Beyond Petsora Eastward"; Two Summer Voyages to Novaya Zemlya and the Islands of the Barents Sea; with Appendices on the Botany and Geology. London, R.H. Porter, 1899.
Description: . Pp. xiv, 335. With a chromolithographed frontispiece: "Eggs of Little Stint" by Henrik Grönvold, 8 maps (of which two bound in at rear) and 103 photographic plates on 88 leaves. Original green cloth, upper cover with gilt decoration, top edges gilt, first quiere loosening. First edition. A detailed account of the ornithology, and to some extent of botany and geology of this region, described here as "A Russian Province of the North"; a region situated north of Norway and the Russian part of Lapland. C.A. Wood p.514. Zimmer p. 484.

Keywords: Europe, russia, lapland, norway, scandinavia, europe, travel, exploration, arctic, novaya zemlya


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