TRIAL BY ICE: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
by Parry, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed; jacket with crease to front flap and back panel.
- ISBN 10
- 0345439252
- ISBN 13
- 9780345439253
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed; jacket with crease . to front flap and back panel.. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1871, the Polaris sailed with great fanfare from New York Harbor and began a historic journey to one of the earth's final frontiers. Seven months later, a handful of half-starved survivors returned with a story that shocked the nation. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.6 inches; 336 pages .
Synopsis
Richard Parry is a retired surgeon who practiced in Anchorage, Alaska. He now lives in Sun City, Arizona. He is the author of three acclaimed novels on Wyatt Earp, as well as That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of Ulysses S. Grant. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7875
- Title
- TRIAL BY ICE: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
- Author
- Parry, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Front board bowed; jacket with crease to front flap and back panel.
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345439252
- ISBN 13
- 9780345439253
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- NONFICTION, HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non-Mystery / Collectible Non-Fiction;
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About the Seller
Blackbird Bookshop
Biblio member since 2003
Trumbull, Connecticut
About Blackbird Bookshop
Blackbird Bookshop is an internet-only bookstore specializing in Mystery and Suspense, and Modern First Editions. We have high standards for any book in our stock, regardless of the age of the book. If we wouldn't be proud to display it in our personal collection, we won't sell it.
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