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MAWSON and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
by FITZSIMONS, Peter
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1742752799
- ISBN 13
- 9781742752792
- Seller
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East Victoria Park, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
North Sydney, William Heinemann/Random House first edit. - trade paperback, stiff card covers On 2 December 1911 Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia; but two other explorers were engaged in a race to the South Pole. Roald Amundsen and Scott of the Antarctic were en-route. 234 x 155mm., pp. xxvi, 737, b/w plates, maps, notes & references, biblio., index. Trade paperback, stitt pictorial card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, slight rubbing on corners, no reading creases on spine. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9781742752792
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- Bookseller
- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4102c7af039b6765c6655f26
- Title
- MAWSON and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
- Author
- FITZSIMONS, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- first edit. - trade paperback, stiff card covers
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1742752799
- ISBN 13
- 9781742752792
- Publisher
- North Sydney, William Heinemann/Random House
- Date Published
- 2012
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