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Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole
by Byrd, Richard E
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- Hardcover
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. xvi, 436 pp. Octavo. Original vellum, blue cloth, and gilt lined boards. Gilt lettering on the spine. This volume comes in its original glassine and box. Lid of the box is somewhat tattered. Uncut edges, slightly dust soiled. 74 illustrations and four maps, including two folding maps. This book is one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Byrd and the publishers on the limitation leaf, printed from a different type setting than the trade edition. This book is numbered 582. A fine copy in the box. Spence 227. "Preceded by a shower of crystals, I descended slowly.... I found myself standing in a grotto, with the domed walls curving in above me, and the refracted illumination from the searchlight falling through the slit rose in a glorious rainbow." So wrote Richard Evelyn Boyd, in a chapter from Little America entitled, "Civilization Doesn't Matter." This book is the story of a large and well-funded American expedition to Antarctica. Boyd described the dramatic Antarctic landscapes, which the vast majority of his readers would never see, blending his poetic narratives with details about the cutting edge 1930s technology that was being used to document and explore this most mysterious of continents. </p><p></p><p>As a note on the provenance, it may be of interest to collectors to know that this volume came from the library of polar historian Marty Greene. 1930
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143708
- Title
- Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole
- Author
- Byrd, Richard E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Polar|Antarctic|Travel and Exploration|Aviation|Aerial exploration
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