Erich Von Drygalski; M. M. Raraty [trans.] — The Southern Ice-Continent

Bluntisham; Alburgh, Bluntisham Books; Erskine Press, 1989. First edition. Cloth. Handsome first English edition on Drygalski's perilous polar expedition at the beginning of the twentieth century. First edition of the English translation.In publisher's original cloth binding.Featuring numerous in-text photographic illustrations and a double-spread map to the rear.First published in German in 1904, this work recounts the first German South Polar expedition, led by Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist. The expedition was undertaken aboard the Gauss, which departed Kiel in August 1901 and did not return until 1903, the ship being trapped by ice for almost fourteen months. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely condition with only slight bumping and rubbing and a few faint marks. Internally, firmly bound. Very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .