Polar Flight
Middlesex: Ian Allan, 1964. Octavo, hardcover, 188 pp., plates and illustrations throughout. Minor browning along top edges, minor flecking along bottom edge of boards, browning on front and rear endpaper, but otherwise a near-fine copy with the dust-jacket. Author's signature on frontispiece.
This is a story of man's journey to reach the geographic poles by using a single mode of travel - flight. As the airship and aeroplane were emerging technologies at the time, they were heavily taken advantage of for polar exploration. The book illustrates how the achievements of polar exploration were made using aircraft as the primary form of travel. Item #414
Price (AUD): $100.00