SCOTT & AMUNDSEN
de Huntford, Roland
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Librería
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. 109 photographic illustrations + 13 Maps. 665 pages. Previous owners names on ffep, and notes on back free endpaper; about 12 pages have short line in margin. Newspaper clippings at back of book. Royal blue cloth, gilt titles on spine; very tiny closed tear at top of spine o/w binding is in perfect condition. Blue and white DJ. VG+ to FINE/VG.. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good.
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
- J. Wyatt Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- C1943
- Título
- SCOTT & AMUNDSEN
- Autor
- Huntford, Roland
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1980
- Palabras clave
- South Pole, Antartic
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J. Wyatt Books
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Sobre J. Wyatt Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- O/W
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
