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Wakefield Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very good condition in dustjacket. 319pp. ISBN-13 1862546509. .
South by Northwest The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica by Mawer, Granville Allen - 2006
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South by Northwest The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
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Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 2006. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 319 pages. The riveting story of the race between rival nations - The British, French and Americans - to claim Antarctica's holy grail. In this never-before told tale of ambition and achievement, maritime historian Allen Mawer resolves some of the controversies that have festered for the past 160 years. . New. 1st Edition. Hardback.
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Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2006. xii, + 319pp., b/white illustrations and maps. Book clean, square. Spine firm, gilt title there-on. Black boards have a light bump to upper foredge corner of front panel. Leaves clean and unmarked. Art-illustrated (Front panel: The corvette Astrolabe breaking free of the Atlantic pack ice, 1838, by A.E.F. Mayer; Rear panel: James Clark Ross, first direct observer of the North Magnetic Pole, with dip circle by J.R. Wildman) dustjacket negligibly edge-creased only. From the jacket flap: "For many, Antarctic history begins and ends with the race between Scott and Amundsen for the geographic south pole, but they were late to the start and only briefly on the course. By then, another polar race had already been in progress for seventy years, and it would continue for even longer. That race, for the South Magnetic Pole, was a marathon rather than a sprint and its starting point was suitably distant from Antarctica, in the ice of the fabled Northwest…
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Kent Town, Wakefield Press First edition - hard cover in dust jacket The Magnetic Pole eluded the rival French, American and British expeditions sent to find it in 1840-41. It also defeated their successors - Shackleton and Mawson. Not until 1986 did Australian scientist succeed, and only then by literally running it down. 237 x 175mm., pp. xii,319, black & white plates, maps, appendix, sources, glossary, notes, index. Hard cover in dust jacket. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j., no tears or chips. FINE. ISBN: 9781862546509
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