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    Reference 1839 (2588)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Brontman, L
    Title ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD: THE SOVIET EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE, 1937. Edited and with a Foreword by Academician O.J.Schmidt Hero of the Soviet Union.
    Publishing Information London: Victor Gollancz, London, 1938.
    Description 1st Edition, 2nd impression before publication stated: (this is NOT the cheaper Left Book Club Edition) 287 pages, illustrated, 24 monotone photographs, 2 maps (1 folding). Original covers, no dust jacket. Previous owners signature on front end paper in pencil. Shelf wear, bumping to covers. An account of a Soviet Expedition in which the participants flew to the North Pole and passed eleven days there. It also covers the experiences of four members of the expedition who stayed longer at the pole, and the four scientist who lived for 8 months drifting on a chunk of ice in the middle of the Arctic Ocean eventually rescued off the coast of Greenland. Contents: Foreword; Why We Flew to the North Pole; The Start; Course - North; The Pole Conquered; On Top of the World; The Valiant Four on the Drifting Ice-Floe; Ice-Flow No. 3; Southwards; On the Mainland Again; Wireless Messages from the North Pole; Appendix The Equipment of the Drifting Station.
    Price £20.00
    Keywords arctic, greenland, qpolarq S1-Arc
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