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    Reference 1965 (617)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Cross, Wilbur (Foreword by Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
    Title GHOST SHIP OF THE POLE: The incredible story of the dirigible 'Italia'.
    Publishing Information London: Heinemann, 1960.
    Description 1st UK Edition; xi, 306pp, illustrated 35 b/w photographs. Blue cloth covers with silver titling to spine in pictorial price clipped dustjacket. The incredible story of Dirigible "Italia" and Umberto Nobile, her captain, who crashed onto an Arctic ice pack in 1928 and reflection of the incident in the politics and international situation of the time. Dustjacket edgeworn with tears, chips to front, old sellotape marks to inside of cover, age toned. Contents clean. Very Good/Dustjacket Fair.
    Price £10.00
    Keywords qpolarq, blimp, balloon, arctic S1-Arc
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