528 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; NORWEGIAN text throughout. Hardcover, pastel-blue cloth decorated in gray-blue with gilt lettering and front photo pastedown, steel-gray endpapers, [xii] + 528 pages, frontispiece sepia-toned portrait, site plan of Framheim camp, 211 b/w photos and illustrations in text, 12 photos on b/w glossy plates, two-color fold-out map in rear. ; This is vol-1 ONLY of a 2-volume set. Foreword by Fridtjof Nansen. Photos include portraits, tall ships, men at work, buildings, tents, dogs, seals, penguins, mountains of ice, etc, etc. ; Roald Amundsen and his expedition were the first explorers known to have reached the South Pole (1911) ; Moderate edgewear. Owner name and place (Mik. Iversen, Brevik) neatly penned on title page in old ink. Small spots to margins of two pages. Boards slightly bowed. Binding intact. A scarce item.
Title: Sydpolen, den Norske Sydpolsfaerd med Fram, 1910-1912, med Portraetter, Illustrationar og Karter, Volume 1 : South Pole, the Norwegian Expedition aboard Fram, with Portraits, Illustrations and Maps, Volume 1
Edition: First Edition
Location Published: Jacobs Dybwads Forlag: 1912
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Item: 2.50 lbs
Categories: History
Seller ID: 23500
Keywords: antarctica history, expeditions, exploration, explorers, fram (ship), nautical, norwegian language, south pole
