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Amundsen, Roald and Lincoln Ellsworth FIRST CROSSING OF THE POLAR SEA. With Additional Chapters by Other Members of the Expedition. New York George H. Doran Company 1927

First edition, American issue. With 32 photos and a folding chart. Tall 8vo, original blue cloth gilt lettered in gilt on the spine and in blind on the upper cover. 315. A very handsome copy, the gilt and blue cloth well preserved.

Amundsen, Ellsworth, and First-Lieutenants in the Royal Norwegian Navy Riiser-Larsen and Leif Dietrichson discussed the possibility of a flight from continent to continent, via the North Pole, in May 1925, and plans for the journey were quickly set. The flight was undertaken in the Italian dirigible N1, whose purchase was arranged and facilitated by Mussolini, and the explorers advanced as far as 88 degrees north before turning back.

$US395

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