rymill john riddoch (4 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Cover somewhat stained as by foxing. Inscribed. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 296 p., 16 plates : map (folding) ; 24 cm. Subjects: Expeditions: 1934-37 Rymill. 1930-1939. Expeditions and exploration. Antarctic regions. Antarctic Peninsula. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 230; photo. illusts.; original wrappers, new. Rymill was a member of Watkins two Greenland expeditions (British Arctic Air Route Expedition, 1930 -31; East Greenland Expedition 1932-3), and took over leadership of the second on Watkins death. He subsequently led the important British Graham Land Expedition (1934-7).

Bluntisham, Huntingdon: Victoire Press Ltd for Bluntisham Books, 1995. 8vo (235 x 150mm). Original printed wrappers; pp. x, 230; half-tone portrait frontispiece, 8 half-tone plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, 4 maps in the text, 3 full- and one double-page; a fine copy.First and only edition. The first full biography of Rymill (1905-1968), a 'major, yet little known explorer' (p. v), who was a member of the expedition of Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to Canada (1929) and the British Arctic Air Route Expedition to Greenland (1930-1931, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal in silver with Arctic bar); a member -- and subsequently the leader -- of H.G. ('Gino') Watkins' expedition to Greenland (1932-1933); and the leader of British Graham Land Expedition to the Antarctic (1934-1937). Amongst the awards and decorations that Rymill received were the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Antarctic Bar (to his silver Polar Medal), and the David Livingstone Centenary Medal of the American Geographical Society of New York. The work is prefaced by a foreword by Colin Bertram, the Biologist to the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934-1937.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, Chatto and Windus, 1938 (first edition). Quarto, xvi, 296 pages with several maps and illustrations plus 81 pages of plates and 4 colour maps (3 folding). Green cloth with a contrasting gilt-lettered cloth label on the spine; top edge dyed green, bottom edge uncut; endpapers a little tanned, with early ownership details on the front free endpaper; an excellent copy with the very good unclipped dustwrapper (unevenly sunned, with a crease across the front panel and some loss along the top edge, affecting a few letters of the first word in the title on the spine and front cover). John Riddoch Rymill (1905-1968), polar explorer and farmer, was the leader of the expedition; he was born in Penola, South Australia, a grandson of the pioneer John Riddoch. 'Rymill's party proved that Graham Land was part of a continental extension (now the Antarctic Peninsula). They discovered a southern, permanently frozen channel, later named King George VI Sound, islanding Alexander I Land (now Alexander Island) and extending to the Bellingshausen Sea. The B.G.L.E. logistics were innovative in Antarctica. Outstanding sledging with dogs, especially over sea ice, was backed by air support and depot laying; the use of a motor launch probing ahead to plot a route for "Penola" through uncharted, rock-strewn waters, was original and successful. The "Penola" covered 26,896 miles (43,283 km) mostly under sail' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').