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 2014 (461) Category General Polar; Author Clarke, Basil Title POLAR FLIGHT. Publishing Information London: Ian Allan Ltd.,1964. Description 1st Edition; 187pp, photographic frontispiece, 30 full-page plates, a full-page facsimile, 11 maps, end-paper maps. Blue cloth cover with silver titling to spine in pictorial price clipped dustjacket. Foreword by Rear Adm. George J. Dufek. With chapters on polar balloons, first airplanes in the Antarctic and Arctic, the Italia Disaster, Byrd, Ellsworth, Rymill and others, Russian operations, and the Scandinavian Airlines System, among many others. Magnificent story of man's courage and impatience to reach the geographic poles by using one mode of travel, flight. Within this book is a parade of hardy men of the heroic age of exploration who risked their lives in aircraft still in the early stage of development. Covers spotted, dustjacket, tears and old sellotape repairs, creased. Contents clean. Good/Fair. Price £10.00 Keywords qpolarq, Byrd, Amundsen, Ellsworth, Rymill, Arctic, Antarctic. S1-Pol ISBN Add this to your basket