Nowadays tourists pay to be taken to the North Pole by icebreaker, but a century ago brave men vied with each other to get there first. Their stories form the subject of this book. With chapters on Nansen, Peary, Franklin, DeLong, Nordenskjold, and others, it has all the ingredients of a bestseller: danger; heroism; greed; tragedy and triumph; and a feud that still simmers today.
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Nowadays tourists pay to be taken to the North Pole by icebreaker, but a century ago brave men vied with each other to get there first. Their stories form the subject of this book. With chapters on Nansen, Peary, Franklin, DeLong, Nordenskjold, and others, it has all the ingredients of a bestseller: danger; heroism; greed; tragedy and triumph; and a feud that still simmers today.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 305pp+maps, illus. edgewear, nicks, dust jacket. sense of gutter stress in illus section. clean, text. polar..
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Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 8vo, boards, 305pp+maps, illus. edgewear, small tears spine ends, dust jacket. light shelfwear. wrinkles at gutter foot area throughout.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7æ-9æ" tall. Hardcover, blue cloth with spine lettered in gold, in non price-clipped publisher's dust-jacket. 305 pages. Sources. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 305 pages. Bibliographic References, Maps. Illustrated with 8 pages of drawings and photographs on coated stock. First edition, first printing with intact number line. A history of North Polar exploration in eye-witness accounts. No previous ownership marks. No reminder mark. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.