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    Reference 2661 (846)
    Category Arctic;
    Author Papanin, Ivan (Translated from the Russian by Fanny Smitham)
    Title LIFE ON AN ICEFLOE.
    Publishing Information London, New York etc: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1947,
    Description 1st Edition; 240pp, illustrated, map and 20 b/w photographs. Red cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in illustrated price clipped dustjacket. Diary of 4 Soviet Marine Biologists on a 9-month expedition to the North Pole in the late 1930s. On May 21st 1937 they were landed by aeroplane near the North Pole. The icefloe they landed on was to be their home for the next nine months as it drifted southwards over a distance of 1324 miles. Gift inscription dated 1954 verso front cover. Shelfware, dustjacket tatty, contents clean. Good.
    Price £10.00
    Keywords qpolarq, arctic, north pole S1-Arc
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