Dans le ciel des pôles. Explorations d'autrefois d'aujourd'hui
by GOUZY René
Price: $30.00
- Bookseller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
- Seller Inventory #: 9635
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition:
- Binding: Hardcover
Book Description
Hardcover. Neuchatel, Geneve 1931. Lge. 8vo, 206pp, 1 pp ads, f & 49 pp ills, mostly in an attractive blue process similar to lithographs, 1 fold. map. Aqua cloth pictorially stamped in green & black, vg+ condition.* Not in Spence. A fine examination of Polar exploration by air with an explanatory introduction. The 1st half is Arctic exploration, the 2nd half is Antarctic exploration. The author covers geography, early exploration and "current exploration", which for the Antarctic was then Wilkins & Byrd. Many fine illustrations & maps.
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