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Discovery.: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
by BYRD, Richard E
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, 1935. First edition, first printing, and an internally fresh copy of this chilling account of Antarctic exploration and individual perseverance, with a foreword by Claude Swanson, then Secretary of the Navy for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Discovery recounts the second Antarctic expedition of Richard E. Byrd (1888-1957), a naval aviator, administrator and explorer. From 1934 to 1935, Byrd commanded a research group of 56 individuals at a camp which they named "Little America". However, Byrd himself chose to spend the winter utterly alone in a hut some 123 miles from the camp, conducting weather observations. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this did not end well - a defective stove filled the hut with carbon monoxide, and his increasingly confused radio messages prompted his colleagues to dispatch a rescue party (ANB). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front cover with decorative title border in gilt, printed map endpapers. With dust jacket by Paul Laune. Portrait frontispiece and 23 other half-tone plates, 1 with map to verso. Light bumping to spine ends, several spots of light wear and soiling to spine and rear cover, light foxing to edges; jacket toned, spine panel sunned and with several small open nicks, wear and nicks to edges, price-clipped: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167223
- Title
- Discovery.
- Author
- BYRD, Richard E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
- Date Published
- 1935
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Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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