Antarctica the Last Continent by Cameron, Ian - 1974

Little Brown, 1974. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Ed Thus. First American ed. Good/Good condition, moderate over all wear to book and dustjacket, corners bumped., small tear to upper left corner of dustjacket..

(London, Cassell and Company, 1974). 4to; laminated pictorial dustwrapper a little edgeworn; original green cloth; endpapers slightly foxed; pp. 256, including index; numerous black-and-white and colour plates. Very good condition. "Antarctica - 51/2 million square miles of windswept ice - is the most desolate, yet in some ways the most beautiful area on earth. Its exploration has been a unique challenge: a contest between nature at her most awe-inspiring and man at his most inquisitive." .

London.: Cassell., 1974.. First edition. . Hardcover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). . Octavo.. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Uk: Cassell. Fair. Hardcover. 1974. 256 pages. d/j edge wear .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1974. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Black & white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. . 1st US Edition. Hardback.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner bookplate on FEP. Few small open tears. .

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,price-clipped to dw/dj.8vo,256pp includes journeys of expeditions to Antarctica,a biblio,an index,b/w+colour illus and maps interspersed throughout the text and the book. Antarctica - five and a half million square miles of windswept ice - is the most desolate,yet in some ways the most beautiful area on earth.Its exploration has been a unique challenge; a contest between nature at her most awe-inspiring and man at his most inquisitive.The Ancients concept of Antarctica was of a Great Southern Continent filled with 'Brazil Wood,Elephants and Gold', but the voyages of the sealers into the tempestuous waters south of Cape Horn,and early explorations culminating in Cook's brilliant achievements,brought about man's first groping contact with the new continent and finally disproves the theories of a fabulous, populated landmass. The first sighting of the mainland is attributed to the little-known Russian, Thaddeus von Bellinghausen,whose landfall,due to… Read More

London., Cassell & Co., Ltd.., 1974. Green cloth+DJ. 1st ed. 4to. 256pp including journeys of explorers from the earliest Polynesians in 650 a.d. to the late 1960's. Includes illustrations of animals, explorers, ships, campsites, maps etc.. In fine cond. With DJ.

London., Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1974. Hardcover in green cloth. 1st ed. 4to. 256pp including journeys of explorers from the earliest Polynesians in 650 A.D. to the late 1960's. Includes illustrations of animals, explorers, ships, campsites, maps etc.. In fine cond. With DJ. London, Cassell & Co.. ( 1st edition. (Small 4to) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 256pp. Color frontispiece, black and white and color photographs, black and white and color illustrations, maps, table, bibliography, index. includes stories about Roald Amundsen, James Cook, Jules Sebastien D'urville, Vivian Fuchs, Adrien De Gerlache de Gomery, James Clark Ross, Robert Falcon Scott & Ernest Henry Shackleton. Locale: South Pole.