Antarctica exploration (2 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An original article from the The American Review of Reviews, 1930. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 24 cms. Category: Review of Reviews; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Thick 8vo. lxiv, 585, [1] pp. With four large folding maps, numerous plates. Gray-blue publisher's cloth, black lettering front cover & spine (minor shelfwear, sunning & toning to spine, minor bumping to corners), still VG- copy, from the library of Tom Koenninger (1932-2010), former editor, managing editor, journalist for The Columbian newspaper, and board member on the Vancouver National Historic Trust. First One-Volume edition of Cherry-Garrard's account of the disastrous Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, drawing on his own account and experiences, as well as the diaries of his compatriots. Cherry-Garrard and the rest of the rescue crew discovered Scott only 11 miles from their depot, frozen to death with Bowers and Wilson. …