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Into the Unknown
Author(s): Houston, J F
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | John Murray |
| Publication Year: | 1952 |
| Publication Place: | UK |
| Book ID: | 001578 |
| Catalogue(s): | Travel, Exploration and Topography ◇ History - General |
134pp. Lightly illustrated. Maps to endpapers. Hardback in yellow publisher's cloth (lightly rubbed at edges, rounded at corners). Occasional spotting. One page has a clipped corner. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Account of how, in ancient times, our ancestors began to explore the world -- when the world was indeed a very small place. Chapters on the mysterious land of Cathay; The New World in the West; Rounding the Cape; the first Circumnavigators; the Dark Continent; With Peary to the North Pole etc. Hard to find volume. 12vo
Keywords:
travel
exploration
history
circumnavigation
drake
peary
amundsen
