Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram

ink Mike Francis

Mike Francis

Watts traces the origin of Zen Buddhism to a synthesis of Chinese Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism and introduces the reader to a variety of Eastern philosophical concepts such as Wuwei

Label laid down on front cover

Great jacket

Early edition bound in dark green half morocco over marbled boards

Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen. With an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram<br /><br /> ink Mike FrancisLondon: George Newnes, 1898. Two volumes. Second UK edition, issued a year after the first. 8vo. Vol 1, pp. xv, 480; Vol 2, pp. viii, 456. Original greenish blue cloth over bevelled boards, spines lettered in gilt, decorative details on spines in gilt and silver, front covers elaborately blocked in gilt, silver, and red, edges of text block sprinkled red. One chromo lithographed plate and about 120 illustrations and vignettes in the text, many full