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    By Helmer Hanssen; E. R. G. R. Evans
    London   George Routledge & Sons, Ltd
    8.5" by 5.5" x, 216pp.
    The first edition of this important memoir from polar explorer Helmer Hanssen, with many illustrations.
    By Helmer Hanssen; E. R. G. R. Evans

    1936 Voyages of a Modern Viking

    London   George Routledge & Sons, Ltd
    8.5" by 5.5" x, 216pp.
    The first edition of this important memoir from polar explorer Helmer Hanssen, with many illustrations.
    £255.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 857T72
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    First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

    First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece, five plates, and a map. Collated complete. A memoir of time spent voyaging across the world by Helmer Hanssen, a Norwegian sailor, pilot and polar explorer remembered as a participant in three of the polar expeditions led by Roald Amundsen. Hanssen was one of the first five explorers to reach the South Pole. With a forward by Vice-Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer.

    Condition

    In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and boards. The odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot and light age toning to the endpapers.

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