The Voyage of the
CHARCOT (Dr. Jean), & WALSH (Philip).

The Voyage of the "Why Not?"

The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910.

First English edition, first issue. Folding photographic frontispiece & 41 plates. Small 4to. Pictorial cloth, gilt. A little rubbed at extremities, small loss of penguin emblem to spine, a few marked in pencil in the margins. viii, 315pp. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [, 1911.

£500.00
CHARCOT (Dr. Jean), & WALSH (Philip).
The Voyage of the "Why Not?"

The first English translation of French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot’s 1908-1910 expedition in the Porquois-Pas?. This was Charcot’s second voyage to Antarctica, and it successfully fulfilled many of its scientific and hydrographic objectives. They wintered on Petermann Island, mapped the coast of Alexander Island and charted the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas.

An “especially attractive volume, one of the nicest of the heroic era literature, in large octavo format with generous margins, with high-quality full-page plates, in a beautiful binding”. Rosove, 67.A1.

Stock No.
256092
Enquire
The Voyage of the
The Voyage of the
Mailing List

Mailing List

Be the first to receive catalogues, short lists and news from our booksellers
Subscribe