The Ice a Journey to Antarctica Tapa dura - 1987

(London: Arlington Books, 1987) 0851407099. 8vo; original blue boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; price-clipped laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 428, incl. index; plates; maps. Dustwrapper partially sunned and a bit foxed; some foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. "As he reveals, the impact of Cook's voyages to Antarctica not only affected the history of science and political economy, but also inspired such works as Melville's Moby Dick and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The tragedy of Scott's polar expedition after Cook, was to herald a new age of modernism in art and science. By exploring such areas of thought and imagination Stephen Pyne finds a context for evoking and understanding the ice itself. As a study of the polar region and a history of discovery and exploration the book is indispensable. It is an all-encompassing guide to a continent which remains the ultimate symbol of the natural world." .

Arlington Books Publishers Ltd, 04/10/1987 00:00:01. hardcover. Acceptable. 4.0609 in x 23.0964 in x 14.9746 in.

Arlington Books Publishers, Limited. Used - Like New. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

Arlington Books, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Hardcover in jacket..

Arlington Books, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Hardcover in jacket with small tear to front panel of jacket..

London: Arlington Books, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 428, b/w illustrations, 'Half of this book is a detailed, scientific, sometimes rhapsodic dissertation on Antarctica's most prominent feature: ice in its various forms. Interspersed are chapters on the exploration, geopolitics, earth sciences, literature, and art of the region: intellectual histories assuming background knowledge. ""

London: Arlington Books, 1987. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. British First. A few small chips along the fore-edge of the dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectable condition..