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An historical document. Botanical observations on the Penny Highlands of Baffin Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2011

Fritz Hans Schwarzenbach
Fritz Hans Schwarzenbach*
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Kistlerweg 9, CH-3006 Bern, Switzerland (fh.schwarzenbach@kinformatik.ch)
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This book (Schwarzenbach 2011) has a strange and remarkable history, which explains the fact that it has now been published in 2011, 58 years after the fieldwork on the project that was undertaken in the summer of 1953.

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Polar Record , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 196 - 197
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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