BORDEN, John (1884-1961). Log of the Auxiliary Schooner Yacht Northern Light: Commanded by John Borden, Lieutenant Commander U.S.N.R.F. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1929.
BORDEN, John (1884-1961). Log of the Auxiliary Schooner Yacht Northern Light: Commanded by John Borden, Lieutenant Commander U.S.N.R.F. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1929.

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BORDEN, John (1884-1961). Log of the Auxiliary Schooner Yacht Northern Light: Commanded by John Borden, Lieutenant Commander U.S.N.R.F. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1929.

A limited edition fine-press printing of the log of the Northern Light. Borden was a millionaire adventurer who founded the Yellow Cab company; this handsome, privately printed book records his voyage through the Bering Strait to Siberia. See Arctic Bib. 1978 for his wife’s account of the same journey.

Quarto (286 x 215mm). Frontispiece, printed in red and blank, decorated initials, 11 photographic reproductions. Publisher’s original tan and blue cloth. Provenance: Aquila Books.

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