ISBN: 9780752459264 - shackleton's dream: fuchs, hillary and the crossing of antarctica (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. New ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780752459264.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780752459264.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. hardback, octavo, a very well preserved and tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a near fine pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, b&w plates, 272pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. White cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light creasing at top pf spine end. Internally in 'Fine' condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. 'Near Fine' unclipped jacket. Please see images for further details. Synopsis: In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called The last great polar journey the crossing of Antarctica. His expedition ended in disaster, with the Endurance crushed and the frozen corpses of three explorers left on the Antarctic plateau. Forty years later Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary, the hero of Everest, set out to succeed where Shackleton had failed. Despite the passage of four decades, the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955 58 encountered many of the obstacles that had so hindered Shackleton a chronic shortage of funds, inadequate equipment and an early onset of pack-ice. Even more disastrously, it also suffered from a clash of personalities so severe that it came close to destroying the expedition from within. Here is a full dramatic retelling of the epic Race to the Pole , between Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary from1955-58. …