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Scott and Amundsen
de Huntford, Roland
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0340195657
- ISBN 13
- 9780340195659
- Librería
-
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979 VG+/VG. 8vo. original blue rexine gilt (trifling marks to fore-edge, slight sunning to top-edge, slight crease to corner of FFE) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges slightly rubbed & creased with a little nicking, a touch of sunning to spine, old tape marks on reverse); pp. xxii (last blank), 666 (last blank), with 109 illustrations & 13 maps. Heavy item (1.7 kg), additional postage may be required. A very good, clean copy of the first printing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG.
Sinopsis
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 004822
- Título
- Scott and Amundsen
- Autor
- Huntford, Roland
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- VG
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0340195657
- ISBN 13
- 9780340195659
- Editorial
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- Roland Huntford Scott Amundsen Antarctica South Pole Robert Falcon Scott Roald Amundsen Norway Travel Biography
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Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
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