Category: Polar

Publication No.40 Commander Chr. Christensen's Whaling Museum, Sandefjord. An abridged version of Galteland's book on Godthul published in Norwegian in 2017. It chronicles the day to day operations of the whalers. It also focuses on the wider Norwegian-British relations and policy issues that played a vital role in how Bryde & Dahl and indeed the entire whaling industry developed.
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Whaling at Godthul South Georgia. The Early History of the Thor Dahl Company 1908 - 1931.

By: Galteland Odd, Basberg Bjorn [editor]

Price: £44.00

Publisher: Novus Press : 2022

Seller ID: 74188

ISBN-13: 9788283900941

Binding: paperback

Condition: 246pp, softback, New, label to half title signed by Bjorn Basberg, the editor.

Publication No.40 Commander Chr. Christensen's Whaling Museum, Sandefjord. An abridged version of Galteland's book on Godthul published in Norwegian in 2017. It chronicles the day to day operations of the whalers. It also focuses on the wider Norwegian-British relations and policy issues that played a vital role in how Bryde & Dahl and indeed the entire whaling industry developed.
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Sub-Antarctic Sanctuary: Summertime on Macquarie Island

By: Gillham Mary

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Gollancz : 1967

Seller ID: 57368

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 223pp, original blue cloth, front endpaper removed and half title page loose, crease to top orner of some pages, Fair in Fair dw with label removal mark to spine.

An account, by a botanist, of a visit to a particularly desolate and lonely nature-reserve. Illustrated with maps, drawing of flowers, birds and seals, and 32 photographs in black and white.
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Under The Pole Star. The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-6.

By: Glen A.R. & Croft N.A.C.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Methuen Publishers : 1937

Seller ID: 51607

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 365pp, 48 plates, 22 maps, original blue cloth, light sunning to spine, prize bookplate, light foxing to endpapers and foreedges, VG+ in colour photocopy of original dw. An attractive copy.

Narrative of an expedition of ten members under A. R. Glen to North-East Land, Svalbard, to investigate weather conditions on inland ice, also problems connected with the age, thickness and physical condition of the icecap.
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Scotland and the Antarctic

By: Goodlad James A.

Price: £59.00

Publisher: Royal Scottish Geographical Society : 2003

Seller ID: 74599

ISBN-13: 9780904049046

Binding: paperback

Condition: 118pp, paperback, ring binder, Fine. A scarce item.

Produced to celebrate the achievements of the Scottish oceanographer and polar explorer William Speirs Bruce and to mark the centenary of the voyage of S.Y. Scotia, the research ship of Bruce's Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04.
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Amid Snowy Wastes. Wild Life On The Spitsbergen Archipelago

By: Gordon Seton

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Cassell & Co : 1922

Seller ID: 74764

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiv, 206pp, 114 illusts, 2 maps, exlibrary, plain quarter black leather binding, very clean, Good+.

A personal narrative of the photographer for the Oxford University Spitsbergen Expedition 1921, mainly concerning the birds of the archipelago, with a description of Prince Charles Foreland and the tundra, and notes on the seals and flowers.
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Round About The North Pole

By: Gordon W.J.

Price: £26.00

Publisher: John Murray : 1907

Seller ID: 53184

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 294pp, original blue cloth, woodcuts and other illustrations by Edward Whymper, new endpapers, sunning to spine, wear to extremities, foxing to prelims and foreedges, Good.

The gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle.
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Round About The North Pole

By: Gordon W.J.

Price: £44.00

Publisher: John Murray : 1907

Seller ID: 52784

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 294pp, original blue cloth, woodcuts and other illustrations by Edward Whymper, professionally recased with new endpapers, rubbing to extremities, small label remnant to spine, near VG.

The gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle.
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Fra Tjuagutt Til Sydpolfarer

By: Gran Tryggve

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Ernst G. Mortensens Forlag, Oslo : 1974

Seller ID: 73818

ISBN-13: 9788252704587

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 329pp,original decorative blue cloth, Fine in VG+ dw. Text in Norwegian. A lovely copy.

Adolphus Washington Greeley. Autograph Letter Signed.

By: Greeley Adolphus Washington

Price: £130.00

Publisher: : 1893

Seller ID: 56248

Binding: paperback

Condition: 4pp, just one side has manuscript, letter dated 1893, 'Washington DC Apr, 13, 1893. Dear Sir, My mother was a Cobb, a daughter of Samuel, and G.D. of Andrew of Gorham, Me. Are you of the Maine branch or do you know anything of that branch? Yours truly A.

Adolphus Washington Greely, 1844-1935, a United States Army Officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor, and famous Arctic explorer.
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The Polar Regions in the Twentieth Century

By: Greely A. W.

Price: £17.00

Publisher: George G. Harrap : 1929

Seller ID: 2350

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 216pp, boards G+, a few light marks to boards, one plate resecured another tender, internally very clean

Comprehensive survey of polar exploration.
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Three Years Of Arctic Service, An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North (Two Volumes)

By: Greely Adolphus W.

Price: £170.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner : 1886

Seller ID: 57465

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxv, 428pp, xii, 444pp, green cloth bindings with maroon leather labels, text blocks edged in red, Vol I lacks the frontispiece, Vol II lacks one of the front endpapers and the final folding map, otherwise a VG set.

This United States expedition during the First International Polar Year, based at Fort Conger, Lady Franklin Bay, on the east coast of Ellesmere Island, explored the north coast of Greenland from Cape Bryant to Cape Washington, the interior and west coast of Grinnell Land, and extended the mapping of Hayes Sound. As relief ships failed to reach them, members of the party made a march out of the Hall Basin area, all but seven dying of starvation before rescue at Cape Sabine, Smith Sound. This narrative of the expedition's course by the leader, includes accounts of the battle with sea ice, the s...
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Water, Ice And Stone. Science And Memory On The Antarctic Lakes.

By: Green Bill

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press : 2008

Seller ID: 64009

ISBN-13: 9781934137086

Binding: paperback

Condition: 271pp, paperback, VG+ copy

The Author has been conducting research in Antarctica since 1968.
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Challenge To The Poles. Highlights of Arctic and Antarctic Aviation.

By: Grierson John

Price: £36.00

Publisher: G. T. Foulis & Co : 1964

Seller ID: 73757

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 695pp, map endpapers, original cream cloth, light foxing to foreedges and endpapers, VG+ in VG dw. An attractive copy.

A hugely comprehensive summary of polar aviation.
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We Followed Peary To The Pole

By: Grosvenor G & McKnew T.W.

Price: £14.00

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1953

Seller ID: 45073

Binding: paperback

Condition: 469-484pp, extract from the National Geographic Magazine October 1953 in green card covers, VG+

Earth In Action. The Geology Of Iceland.

By: Guðmundsson Ari Trausti & Kjartansson Halldor

Price: £78.00

Publisher: Vaka - Helgafell : 1996

Seller ID: 58349

ISBN-13: 9789979203469

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 166pp, pictorial boards, Fine copy

The book holds the answers to most questions asked concerning the geology of Iceland.
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Below The Convergence. Voyages Towards Antarctica, 1699-1839.

By: Gurney Alan

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Pimlico : 1998

Seller ID: 73800

ISBN-13: 9780712673297

Binding: paperback

Condition: 315pp, paperback, Fine.

The story of British, American, and Russian expeditions, from the astronomer Halley's voyage in the Paramore in 1699 to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 voyage in the Eliza Scott.
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Tracks In The Snow

By: Haig-Thomas David

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : 1939

Seller ID: 72788

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 292pp, 16 illusts, 4 maps, original blue cloth, some fading to cloth, slight lean to spine, light foxing to foreedges, Good, no dustwrapper. A scarce title.

Narrative of the author's year in North Greenland, 1937-38, during which he sledged across Ellesmere, Axel Heiberg and Ringnes Islands, and with R. A. Hamilton surveyed the southeast coast of Ellesmere Island. His arrative includes an entertaining and informative account of the Polar Eskimos.
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Our New Alaska; or The Seward Purchase Vindicated.

By: Hallock Charles

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Forest & Stream Publishing Co. : 1886

Seller ID: 73279

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 209pp, original decorative red cloth, darkening and staining to boards, signature of polar historian, Ann Savours Shirley, neat professional repair to folding map, Good only, dedication from the publishers on the front endpaper to Hon. James G. Swan. Jam

In the preface Hallock states the point of this book is, "to point out the visible resources of that far-off territory, and to assist their laggard development; to indicate to those insufficiently informed the economic value of important industries hitherto almost neglected, which are at once available for immediate profit".
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Voyages of a Modern Viking

By: Hanssen Helmer

Price: £325.00

Publisher: George Routledge : 1936

Seller ID: 72357

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiii, 216pp, original blue cloth, light wear to extremities, small neat repair to half title, owner's signature, foreedge foxing, occasional light foxing, VG in colour photocopy of original dw. A scarce title.

This includes the only first hand account of Amundsen's South Pole Journey apart from Amundsen's. Hanssen was one of Amundsen's men in the Gjoa on the North West Passage Expedition, and was one of the five men who stood first at the South Pole in 1911. He captained the Maud which made a successful trip through the North East Passage.
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Sledging into History

By: Harrowfield David L.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Macmillan Co. of New Zealand : 1981

Seller ID: 73311

ISBN-13: 9780333301302

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 119pp, original blue cloth, private bookplate, library withdrawn stamp, edges rubbed, Good+ in Good+ dw, signed by David Harrowfield. An uncommon title.

Volunteers spend each summer repairing, recording and preserving the huts and sites from which the great exploring expeditions set out, the book is a chronicle of modern caretaking work, complete with plans of the huts and photographs.
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The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe

By: Hartwig G.

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. : 1874

Seller ID: 52792

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xviii, 548pp, 8 plates, 3 maps, original red decorative cloth, wear to extremities, rescased with new spine and original relaid, hinges strengthened, foxing to tissue guards and endpapers, Good+.

The Polar World: A Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the Globe.

By: Hartwig G.

Price: £39.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. : 1874

Seller ID: 57636

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xviii, 548pp, 8 plates, 3 maps, original red decorative cloth, rear edge of spine wearing thin, wear to extremities, some foxing, Good+

Antarctica

By: Hatherton Trevor

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Metheun : 1965

Seller ID: 57382

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 511pp, + Map, VG in Fair dw with large tear repaired but looks respectable in foldon cover.

Geographical Names of the Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve and Vicinity

By: Hattersley-Smith Geoffrey

Price: £14.00

Publisher: The Arctic Institute Of North America : 1998

Seller ID: 37836

ISBN-13: 9780919034969

Binding: paperback

Condition: 89pp, paperback, folding map, exlibrary, near VG

A useful reference.
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Geographical Names of the Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve and Vicinity

By: Hattersley-Smith Geoffrey

Price: £18.00

Publisher: The Arctic Institute of North America : 1998

Seller ID: 74044

ISBN-13: 9780919034969

Binding: paperback

Condition: 89pp, paperback, folding map, VG+, signed inscription by Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian.

A useful reference.
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The Conquest Of The South Pole. Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931

By: Hayes J. Gordon

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The Macmillan Company : 1933

Seller ID: 52744

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 318pp, spine area badly damp stained, Fair.

Written with the benefit of conversations with surviving expedition members and the approval of all living leaders of expeditions and by the comrades and relatives of the dead. Hayes approached H. R. Mill to make the publication a joint effort but Mill declined as his opinion on the competence of certain explorers differed from Hayes?s. Mill did however encourage Hayes to continue and provided the Introduction to the book.
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The Year of the Quiet Sun

By: Hayter Adrian

Price: £4.00

Publisher: The Quality Book Club : 1968

Seller ID: 41096

ISBN: 340044802

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, original brown cloth, foreedge foxing, VG in Good+ dw.

One year at Scott Base, Antarctica, a persoanl impression.
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A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson's Bay to The Northern Ocean, Undertaken by Order of the Hudson s Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, A North West Passage, in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772.

By: Hearne Samuel

Price: £75.00

Publisher: M. G. Hurtig Ltd : 1971

Seller ID: 64946

ISBN-13: 9780888300478

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 459pp, folding maps, original red cloth, Fine in Fine dw. A lovely copy of an important title.

Despite all their daring and enterprise, few of the early English fur trade explorers possessed the skill or carried the necessary instruments to report fully their discoveries. It was left to Samuel Hearne, an observant and industrious Hudson's Bay employee, to publish the first comprehensive account of the inhabitants and terrain under the company's control. Rumours of an ocean passage leading west from Hudson?s Bay had led to accusations that the company was concealing the potentialities of its territory. Also reports of a copper mine in the far north had stirred the hopes of company offici...
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Ringed Seals In The North Atlantic. NAMMCO Scientific Publications. Volume 1

By: Heide-Jorgensen Mads Peter & Lydersen Christian

Price: £20.00

Publisher: The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission : 1998

Seller ID: 58324

ISBN-13: 9788291578040

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 273pp, pictorial boards, Fine copy

The NAMMCO scientific Committee provides scientific advice on marine mammal species and stocks in the North Atlantic.
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Fatal North. Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, The First US Expedition to the North Pole.

By: Henderson Bruce

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Signet Books : 2001

Seller ID: 57496

ISBN: 04513204131

Binding: paperback

Condition: 337pp, paperback, VG.

It began as America's first attempt to reach the North Pole and ended with the death of the ship's captain under suspicious circumstances, violent dissension among the crew, the ship's evacuation and eventual sinking.
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The White Continent. The Story of Antarctica

By: Henry Thomas R.

Price: £3.00

Publisher: The Scientific Book Club : 1950

Seller ID: 40820

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 211pp, original red cloth, Good, no dustwrapper.

Henry was a correspondent with the United States Navy Expedition 1946-47.
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The White Continent. The Story of Antarctica

By: Henry Thomas R.

Price: £3.00

Publisher: The Scientific Book Club : 1950

Seller ID: 33090

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 211pp, original red cloth, VG- in Fair chipped dw.

Henry was a correspondent with the United States Navy Expedition 1946-47.
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A World Of Men. Exploration In Antarctica.

By: Herbert Wally

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode : 1968

Seller ID: 74761

ISBN: 413262804

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 232pp, folding map in rear pocket, original blue cloth, VG in poor ragged dw.

Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske.

By: Hermannsson Halldor

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press : 1960

Seller ID: 70020

Binding: paperback

Condition: xi, 755pp, in original paper wrappers, spine edges worn and a little delicate, repair tape marks to front and rear cover, internally very clean indeed, Fair. Reissue of the 1914 First Edition.

The Fiske Icelandic Collection is one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization. Daniel Willard Fiske, 1831-1904, was a professor at Cornell University, New York, and became their first librarian. An accomplished linguist and an inveterate book collector he began building his Icelandic library while still a young student. He bequeathed the collection to Cornell and it came to the University Library in 1905. The collection has quadrupled in size during its first century at Cornell, and the acquisition program is still active today. Halldór Hermannsson, became fir...
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Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske. Additions 1913-1926

By: Hermannsson Halldor

Price: £42.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University : 1927

Seller ID: 65348

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 284pp, in original paper wrappers and then bound in grey cloth with gilt titling, ex college library, a few stamps but very clean indeed, VG.

The Fiske Icelandic Collection is one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization. Daniel Willard Fiske, 1831-1904, was a professor at Cornell University, New York, and became their first librarian. An accomplished linguist and an inveterate book collector he began building his Icelandic library while still a young student. He bequeathed the collection to Cornell and it came to the University Library in 1905. The collection has quadrupled in size during its first century at Cornell, and the acquisition program is still active today. Halldór Hermannsson, became fir...
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Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske. Additions 1913-26

By: Hermannsson Halldor

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University : 1960

Seller ID: 70034

Binding: hardcover

Condition: ix, 284pp, original paper wrappers, owner's initials, VG.

The Fiske Icelandic Collection is one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization. Daniel Willard Fiske, 1831-1904, was a professor at Cornell University, New York, and became their first librarian. An accomplished linguist and an inveterate book collector he began building his Icelandic library while still a young student. He bequeathed the collection to Cornell and it came to the University Library in 1905. The collection has quadrupled in size during its first century at Cornell, and the acquisition program is still active today. Halldór Hermannsson, became fir...
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Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske. Additions 1927-42

By: Hermannsson Halldor

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University : 1960

Seller ID: 70035

Binding: hardcover

Condition: vii, 295pp, original paper wrappers, VG.

The Fiske Icelandic Collection is one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization. Daniel Willard Fiske, 1831-1904, was a professor at Cornell University, New York, and became their first librarian. An accomplished linguist and an inveterate book collector he began building his Icelandic library while still a young student. He bequeathed the collection to Cornell and it came to the University Library in 1905. The collection has quadrupled in size during its first century at Cornell, and the acquisition program is still active today. Halldór Hermannsson, became fir...
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Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection bequeathed by Willard Fiske

By: Hermannsson Halldór [compiler]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Martino Publishing : 2002

Seller ID: 61663

ISBN-13: 9781578982639

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 755pp, original green cloth with gilt titling, New copy.

The Fiske Icelandic Collection is one of the three largest collections on Icelandic literature and civilization. Daniel Willard Fiske, 1831-1904, was a professor at Cornell University, New York, and became their first librarian. An accomplished linguist and an inveterate book collector he began building his Icelandic library while still a young student. He bequeathed the collection to Cornell and it came to the University Library in 1905. The collection has quadrupled in size during its first century at Cornell, and the acquisition program is still active today. Halldór Hermannsson, became fir...
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When the Corvette Uruguay was Dismasted. The Return of the Uruguay from the Antarctic in 1903.

By: Hermelo Ricardo S. & Sobral Jose M. & Fliess Felipe

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Adelie Books : 2004

Seller ID: 72500

ISBN-13: 9780970538611

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 24pp, hardback, grey cloth, marbled boards, no dustwrapper issued, New, with tiny bump to corners.

Most Antarctic polar buffs are familiar with the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-4 under the leadership of Otto Nordenskjöld, but because all of the primary sources are in Spanish and Swedish few are familiar with the interesting homeward bound journey aboard the Argentinean relief vessel Uruguay. The ship was severely damaged in a storm north of the South Shetland Islands, and just what transpired between the Argentinean and Swedish staffs became a matter of intriguing controversy and pride for the Argentineans. When the Corvette Uruguay Was Dismasted is an English language translation o...
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When the Corvette Uruguay was Dismasted. The Return of the Uruguay from the Antarctic in 1903.

By: Hermelo Ricardo S. & Sobral Jose M. & Fliess Felipe

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Adelie Books : 2004

Seller ID: 72502

ISBN-13: 9780970538611

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xii, 24pp, hardback, grey cloth, marbled boards, no dustwrapper issued, New, with tiny bump to corners.

Most Antarctic polar buffs are familiar with the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-4 under the leadership of Otto Nordenskjöld, but because all of the primary sources are in Spanish and Swedish few are familiar with the interesting homeward bound journey aboard the Argentinean relief vessel Uruguay. The ship was severely damaged in a storm north of the South Shetland Islands, and just what transpired between the Argentinean and Swedish staffs became a matter of intriguing controversy and pride for the Argentineans. When the Corvette Uruguay Was Dismasted is an English language translation o...
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