Polar Books Catalogue
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Sections : Antarctic; Arctic; Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society; Maps; Miscellaneous; Mountaineering; General Polar; Scott; Other travel; Whaling;
Reference 794 (1284) Category Antarctic; Author Charcot, J. B. (Welsh,P. Translator) Title THE VOYAGE OF THE "WHY NOT?" IN THE ANTARCTIC: The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910 . Publishing Information London: Hodder & Stoughton, [no date circa 1911] Description 1st English Edition; Association Copy - Rudmose-Brown. English Version translated by Philip Walsh. viii, 315 pages, folding photographic frontispiece plus 47 photographs, 3 sketches and 1 map. Original blue-grey cloth binding, embossed with gilt illustration of a ship and titling on front cover, white a penguin and gilt titling to spine. "Ex Libri Rudmose Brown" stamp of verso front cover and signed R N Rudmose Brown may 28th 1912 on Front end paper. Spine faded, endpapers browned, Bubbling and bowing to covers. Contents clean. Exploration & mapping of 3000km of the Antarctic Peninsula (Graham Land) by a French expedition. Charcot continued exploring and recording data in the polar water until his death in 1936 in a storm-induced shipwreck on the coast of Iceland. Provenance: Library stamp of R.N.Rudmose-Brown with his signature dated May 28, 1912 on front end paper. Rudmose Brown was a botanist and polar explorer who was on The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902 - 1904. Price £800.00 Keywords South Pole, expedition, polar, Antarctic. S1-Ant ISBN Add this to your basket