Under the North Pole: the Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition.
by Sir Hubert Wilkins
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/decorated boards
- Seller
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Picton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931, 347 pgs., 1st ed. of this rare book, in very good library rebind, good with some spotting on pages, illustrated with maps, plates, drawings of the submarine, and facsimile copies of pages from an 1648 book. One of the few books written about an expedition before it took place. Different authors wrote sections of the book including: Vilhjalmur Stefansson about the background history, Simon Lake about the development of the under ice submarine and Wilkins about the plans. The book is about the attempt to travel to the pole under the ice using a modified US sub.
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- Bookseller
- Naval Marine Archive (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 813124
- Title
- Under the North Pole: the Wilkins-Ellsworth Submarine Expedition.
- Author
- Sir Hubert Wilkins
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- decorated boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Brewer, Warren & Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Polar exploration in a new manner.
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