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    Reference 4352 (2590)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Tranter, G.J
    Title PLOWING THE ARCTIC: The Tremendous Story of the St. Roch
    Publishing Information London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1944
    Description December 1944 reprint: 256 pages, illustrated, b/w photos, front endpaper map. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket. Previous owners signature on verso front end paper otherwise contents clean, spotting to page edges, shelf wear, covers grubby, frontispiece loosening. Account of the voyage through the North-West Passage from West to East of the St. Roch, (Henry A. Larsen,Commander.) The St. Roch, Captained by Larsen in 1940-1944 to complete the Northwest Passage from the West to the East and would become the first to have traversed the continent in both directions.
    Price £10.00
    Keywords polar,qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, S1-Arc
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