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 3708 (2435) Category Arctic; Author Papanin, Ivan (Translated from the Russian by Fanny Smitham) Title LIFE ON AN ICEFLOE. Publishing Information London, New York etc: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1947, Description 1st Edition; 240 pages, illustrated, 20 b/w photographs, 1 map. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners inscription on front end paper. Shelf wear, dust jacket tatty, spotting to prelims and page edges, pages slightly rippled, contents clean. Diary of 4 Soviet Marine Biologists on a 9-month expedition to the North Pole in the late 1930s. On May 21st 1937 they were landed by aeroplane near the North Pole. The icefloe they landed on was to be their home for the next nine months as it drifted southwards over a distance of 1324 miles. Price £15.00 Keywords qpolarq, arctic, north pole S1-Arc ISBN Add this to your basket