Scott and Amundsen
por Huntford, Roland
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- VG/VG
- Livreiro
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Auckland, New Zealand
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
England: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1979. Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles. Edges: top-edge once dark blue, now only slightly faded; few only faiint foxings; thin smudge to bottom edge corner. Clean contents. Generous b/w glossy illustrations. Binding is As New. 665p Dj: clean jacket,. Light couple of scratches. Spine: head & foot with paperthin rubbing and couple of teeny chips. Book: 1 kg. First Edition. Hb. VG/VG.
Sinopse
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- BOOKMARK Ltd
(NZ)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 043163
- Título
- Scott and Amundsen
- Autor
- Huntford, Roland
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - VG
- Condição de sobrecapa
- VG
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton Limited
- Local de publicação
- England
- Data de publicação
- 1979
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Mountaineering;
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