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Download or read book Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal Or Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin s Expedition in the Years 1850 51 written by Sherard Osborn and published by . This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher: New York: Putnam's Publication date: 1852 Subjects: Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847 Pioneer (Ship) Search and rescue operations -- Arctic regions Arctic regions Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
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