THE LONELIEST CONTINENT - The Story of Antarctic Discovery

by Chapman, Walker

First Edition

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Book Description

Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1964. 279 pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. . Very light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Terra Australis Incognita; Cook Crosses the Circle; The Sealers Find a New Continent; Weddell Sails South; To the Magnetic Pole; The Crowded Antarctic; Scott's First Expedition; The First Assault on the Pole; The Conquest of the South Pole; The Scott Tragedy; Mawson and Blizzards Whackleton and Endurance; Byrd-Admiral of the Ends of the Earth; Ellsworth-Across the Continent by Air; and Toward the Atomic Age. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo. robert falcon scott; sir ernest shackleton; south pole; polar regions; antarctic;.

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