London: Book Club Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Slight shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ, remains of old price sticker and tiny drag tear to front fly, corners lightly bumped, old dealer ink stamp to half title, some foxing to edges of reading block. ; First printing of BCA book club edition CN1776, 1994. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blue map endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Wrap around DJ photo and insert courtesy of Fiennes Stroud Howell Sygma. ; Photographs; 336 pages; On 9th November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Michael Stroud set out from the Filchner Ice Shelf each pulling 500-pound sledges in a bid to cross the Antarctic continent without assistance. Equipment failure and injury dogged them; friendship first turned to tension and frustration, then to mutual hatred. Ninety five days later when they were airlifted out more dead than alive from the Ross Ice Shelf, they had completed the longest unsupported journey in polar history. .

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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 33502
Title: Mind Over Matter The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent.
Author: Fiennes, Ranulph
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
Publisher: Book Club Associates
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1994
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Book Club Edition
Bookseller catalogs: Travel;

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