SOUTH BY NORTHWEST : The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica

Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2006. xii, + 319pp., b/white illustrations and maps. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Black boards have a light bump to upper foredge corner of front panel. Leaves clean and unmarked. Art-illustrated (Front panel: The corvette Astrolabe breaking free of the Atlantic pack ice, 1838, by A.E.F. Mayer; Rear panel: James Clark Ross, first direct observer of the North Magnetic Pole, with dip circle by J.R. Wildman) dustjacket negligibly edge-creased only. From the jacket flap: "For many, Antarctic history begins and ends with the race between Scott and Amundsen for the geographic south pole, but they were late to the start and only briefly on the course. By then, another polar race had already been in progress for seventy years, and it would continue for even longer. That race, for the South Magnetic Pole, was a marathon rather than a sprint and its starting point was suitably distant from Antarctica, in the ice of the fabled Northwest Passage . . . " Contents include: Intro., Prologue 17 chapters over two 'parts', Epilogue, Appendix (including Glossary and Index). Book weight approx. 845g. * Customers outside Australia - This item will incur extra postage charges as it will weigh over 1KG. with packing. Please email for quote. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +.