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Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2006. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 170mm x 240mm. Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Inscription to half-title page, otherwise internally clean. Binding tight. 319pp.
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South by NorthWest : The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica Hardcover - 2006
by Mawer, Granville Allen
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- Title South by NorthWest : The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
- Author Mawer, Granville Allen
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- Publisher Wakefield Press, Adelaide
- Date 2006
- ISBN 9781862546509
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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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