The Polar Book
E. Allom and Co., 1930.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers. Maps of the North and South Polar Regions to rear, printed in colour on a single fold-out sheet. A bright, near fine copy, light foxing to covers and title page, otherwise clean.
A book published in conjunction with the British Polar Exhibition of 1930, featuring essays on the Arctic and Antarctic regions by Louis Bernacchi, Frank Debenham, Hugh Robert Mill and others. The aim of the expedition, and the book, was to raise funds for the recently founded Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge.
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