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    Reference 1840 (2608)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Brontman, L. Edited and with a Foreward by Academician O.J.Schmidt Hero of the Soviet Union.
    Title ON THE TOP OF THE WORLD: THE SOVIET EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE, 1937
    Publishing Information London: Victor Gollancz, London, 1938.
    Description 1st UK Edition: NOT the Left Book Club Edition. xiii, [3], 17-287, [1 (blank)] pages + 24 plates. 2 maps (1 folding). Origianl covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, some marking to covers, ink gift inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, some spotting, mainly to page edges and prelims. 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 scientists 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.
    Price £50.00
    Keywords arctic, greenland S1-Arc
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