First Crossing of the Polar Sea.
Amundsen, Roald and Ellsworth, Lincoln.
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Place Published: Garden City:
Publisher: Doubleday,
Date Published: 1928.
Binding: Hardcover
Book Id: 12899
Description
The 1926 crossing of the North Pole in the semi rigid dirigible 'Norge'. Amundsen, the famed Norwegian polar explorer, was the first to reach the South Pole. This is a very nice copy of his first crossing of the Polar Sea, in dust jacket. 8vo, b&w frontis, 324 pp, b&w illus throughout, folding map. Orig. pale blue cloth covers, title in black, spine very slt. rubbed at top and base. Pictorial dj, sml. chips top of spine, spine a bit sunned. Dj with protective wrapper.



