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SIR HUBERT WILKINS: HIS WORLD OF ADVENTURE. An Autobiography recounted by Lowell Thomas
by Thomas, Lowell
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About This Item
Arthur Barker Limited, London, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 1st Edition; 278 pages, illustrated, b/w photographs. Original hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers have remnants of old Sellotape, covers slightly faded top and bottom of spine. Contents clean. Biography of the polar explorer, who went on expeditions with Stefansson and Shackleton and made pioneering air flights in both the Arctic and Antarctic. George Hubert Wilkins (1888 - 1958), was an Australian-born British explorer who advanced the use of the airplane and pioneered the use of the submarine for polar research, exploring both poles. Written from Wilkins diaries and notes. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Biography & Autobiography. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2891. .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2891
- Title
- SIR HUBERT WILKINS: HIS WORLD OF ADVENTURE. An Autobiography recounted by Lowell Thomas
- Author
- Thomas, Lowell
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arthur Barker Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- BZDB349 polar,qpolarq, arctic, polarbook, polar books antarctic book arctic book Artic/Arctic, Antartic/Antarctic Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Biography & Autobiography. Thomas, Lowell SIR HUBERT WILKINS: HIS WORLD OF ADVENTURE. An Autobiogr
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