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Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. Reprinted. 438 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with visible staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier chipping and tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
The Home of the Blizzard. Being The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. (Two Volumes) by Mawson Sir Douglas - 1915
by Mawson Sir Douglas
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The Home of the Blizzard. Being The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. (Two Volumes)
by Mawson Sir Douglas
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William Heinemann, 1915. 1915 First Edition. hardcover. xxx, 349pp, xiii, 338pp, colour and black and white illustrations, 3 folding maps (2 are reproduced), later plain blue cloth bindings with gilt titling to spines, spines faded, corners bumped, light foxing to endpapers, internally clean, Good in colour photocopies of the original dustwrappers.. Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910. Mawson lead his own expedition to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole. It includes an account of a harrowing journey back to camp in which one of his companions Ninnis was lost together with food and supplies in a crevasse. Mawson and Mertz continued but suffered food poisoning after eating some of the dogs. Mertz also died and Mawson managed to return to camp alone only to find their ship had left a few hours before. He and six of his men had to spend another winter in Antarctica.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.
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- Keywords POLAR SOUTH - polar exploration mountaineering alpinism bergsteigen antarctic antarctica south pole discovery travel shackleton amundsen scott antarktis antarctique polaire australia australian
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The Home Of The Blizzard. Being The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD. Being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.
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London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.. xxxii+438pp. Large 8vo. Original cloth, b&w plates, three folding maps, offsetting to title page, prize label, a very good copy.. Abridged Popular Edition. First edition thus. Upper pane of dustwrapper loosely inserted.
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The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1930. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, 3 folding maps, pp xxxi, 438. Spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate. Previous owner's signature. Pencilled sketch on rear endpaper. Very good condition. First edition of the first popular edition, abridged and revised from the original two volume edition published in 1915. Many of the illustrations were not in the first edition and are published here for the first time. Popular Edition. Boards.
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The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1915. 1st US edition. Hardcover. 3rd state of the binding, in orange buckram, ex-lib copy. shelf number on spine, no stamps on plates, only stamp is on inside cover. Uncut pages. LACKS - in Vol 1, the color plate at p. 172; Vol II, the plate at p. 98 & folding map of Queen Mary Land. HAS Errata slip 2 vols, 349 pp & 338 pp, 224 ills., 37 ills. in text, and 2 folding maps. Spines rubbed and worn; inner hinges of both volumes inexpertly strengthened with cloth tape. A good reading copy. As is.
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The Home of the Blizzard being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914
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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. Front gutter weak, ink inscrip. to pd, spine heavily sunned, spine bumped, boards with some light dampstaining.. 2nd. Hard. Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
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Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, (1915). sep 22 2017. Two vols. xxx, 348, (1); xiii, 337, (1) pp. b/w First edition. Mawson's occasionally perilous adventures in King George V Land and Adelie Land which, at that time were unexplored. Spence 773. Rosove 217.A2., who considers this the first state of the first edition. (See p. 246.) This is a fine untrimmed copy, with the errata slip in Vol I. showing three errors. Handsomely rebound in quarter black morocco over marbled boards.
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Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914.
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The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914; Illustrated in Colour and Black and White, Also With Maps. Volume I & II (2 Volumes) [1st Edition]
by Mawson, Sir Douglas
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1914 Circa 1914. xxx, 349pp; xiii, [1], 338pp, [2], uniformly bound in the original red cloth, deckled page edges, hinges starting, bindings tight. With the small bookplate of John J. Atwater. Covers show sunning, soiling, Interiors in Very Good Condition. Illustrated throughout, the Errata Slip is intact, with the three folding color lithograph maps in the back pocket [no tears, light foxing to one].
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The Home Of The Blizzard, Being The Story Of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 (vols 1 & 2)
by Mawson, Sir Douglas
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William Heinemann, London 1915 (first edition). 25.0 x 17.0cms, c 690pp in toto, 123 vcolour & b/w illusts, 3 foldout maps in a pocket at the end of Volume 2, 2 very good hardback volumes with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued, both spines have faint type, the corner of vol 1 has some glue [?] residue) Douglas Mawson explains how his expedition explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. His sledging parties covered around 4,180 kilometres (2,600 mi) of unexplored territory, while his ship, SY Aurora, navigated 2,900 kilometres (1,800 miles) of unmapped coastline. His scientific activities included meteorological measurements, magnetic observations, an expansive oceanographic program, and the collection of many biological and geological samples, including the first meteorite found in Antarctica. The expedition was the first to establish and maintain wireless contact between Antarctica and Australia.
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