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Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society Publishers, Ltd., [1964].:
Octavo, blue cloth, silver letters, 279 pp. B & w photos, maps. Very Good+ with light edgewear in a like dust jacket. This is the story of the discovery of Antartica: the heroic probing by persevering men of many nationalities into the forbidding ice-bound fastness of the last unkown continent. Chapman, beginning with the imaginative ideas of early Greek geographers, tells of the first South Sea voyages, the rugged adventures of the sealers and whalers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the first major American expedition - promted by the speeches and writings of a gentleman who believed...
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