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Two Years in the Region of Icebergs & What I Saw There Rev F E J Lloyd 1887

Lot Number:3240
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Start Time:19/9/2025 9:30:00 PM
End Time:29/9/2025 10:17:48 PM
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Two Years in the Region of Icebergs & What I Saw There Rev F E J Lloyd 1887

What it is

  • Full title: Two Years in the Region of Icebergs and What I Saw There. 

  • Author: Frederic E. J. Lloyd (Frederic Ebenezer John Lloyd, 1859‑1933). 

  • Publisher: London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Date ca. 1886 (though sometimes given 1887, depending on edition)

  • Format: about 127 pages (text), about 18 cm tall. 

What it covers / Contents & Themes

From what I could gather, the book is a travel / observational narrative, mostly about Lloyd’s two years in an area of icebergs (Labrador / Newfoundland coast / north Atlantic) and what he witnessed, especially natural phenomena, ice, Indigenous people, and conditions in that remote environment. Here are more specifics:

  • Descriptions of icebergs: their shapes, how they float / drift, their changes, interaction with weather, sun, tides. Lloyd details what he saw over the seasons. 

  • The climate, the sea ice, fogs, storms, the effect of ice on navigation, perhaps on local inhabitants. 

  • Encounters with Indigenous peoples in Newfoundland & Labrador; their life, customs, perhaps how they live in relation to the ice environment. The subject listing includes Indigenous peoples — Newfoundland & Labrador.

  • Observations of fauna / flora, coastal geography, travel and logistics in harsh conditions.

  • Reflections on isolation, polar / near-polar environments, the moral / spiritual effect of exposure to such extremes (common in literature of that period).

Significance / Context

  • Lloyd’s book is part of a tradition of late‑19th‑century literature documenting northern / polar environments, partly for scientific interest, partly missionary or moral reflections, partly for curiosity / travelogue.

  • It gives primary‑source style detail of the iceberg regions off Labrador / Newfoundland, which is valuable for environmental history (ice movement, climate, sea travel), as well as for cultural history (Indigenous observations, colonial perspectives).

  • Because of the era, its descriptions include Victorian attitudes, and sometimes the language / perceptions reflect that: useful for historians to see both what is observed and how it’s interpreted.

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