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SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN: The Race to the South Pole
de Huntford, Roland
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ to Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399119604
- ISBN 13
- 9780399119606
- Librería
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1980) 666 pp. Original black covers, very bright and clean. Light soiling to edges of text block. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear; creases to bottom corner of front panel. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents very nice.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ to Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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- Librería
- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23727WHPOL
- Título
- SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN: The Race to the South Pole
- Autor
- Huntford, Roland
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ to Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399119604
- ISBN 13
- 9780399119606
- Editorial
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1980
- Palabras clave
- WORLD HISTORY TRAVEL DESCRIPTION EUROPE GREAT BRITAIN BIOGRAPHY SCOTT ROBERT FALCON 1868 1912 AMUNDSEN ROALD ENGELBERT GRAVING 1872 1928 EXPLORERS EXPLORATION EXPEDITIONS 1912 SOUTH POLE NORWAY NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED PHOTOGRAPHS
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Exploration;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Good+
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
