Arctic and Antarctic The Will and the Way of John Riddoch Rymill
Huntingdon, UK: Bluntisham Books, 1995. Tall octavo, black hardcover, spine and front cover embossed with silver lettering, x, 230 pp., frontispiece, eight double-sided black-and-white plates, three maps included. Spine ends bumped, right corner of front cover bumped, small spot on fore-edge of text block; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. The first biography written of explorer John Ryhill, who in 1930 travelled to Greenland as a member of the British Arctic Route Expedition and later became leader of the British Graham Land Expedition. The BGLE was an historic journey, fruitful in formal science and geographical discovery, and earned Rymill several medals and a grant. Item #4697
Front paste-down endpaper has a black ex-libris stamp that reads "In Deo Spec Mea Charles Warren Bonython". Front free endpaper has a handwritten note reading: "From the Library of C W Bonython"
Price (AUD): $40.00