Antarctica: The Heroic Age.
by Finkel, George
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0001950266
- ISBN 13
- 9780001950269
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Collins Press, 1976. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, maps (including endpapers), minor edgewear jacket (faint foxing reverse side). 160 pp. This book looks in detail at four of the main expeditions to Antarctica between 1900 and 1914, a period described as being "The Heroic Age" because survival was dependent on man alone without the help or advantages of mechanical inventions.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25266
- Title
- Antarctica: The Heroic Age.
- Author
- Finkel, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0001950266
- ISBN 13
- 9780001950269
- Publisher
- Collins Press
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- history, travel, exploration, maritime, pacific, antarctica, antarctic
- Bookseller catalogs
- PACIFIC & NEW ZEALAND;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
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