Nautilus 90 North by Commander William R. Anderson

Nautilus 90 North

by Commander William R. Anderson

with Clay Blair, Jr.

The Quality Book Club, 1959, black and white photographic frontispiece, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription and details on front endpaper, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear, a little chipping, rubbing and minor discolouration (see photographs)

“Nautilus 90 North.  This was the code message in which Commander Anderson told the world that the climax of his ship’s momentous voyage had been successfully surmounted.  At 1.15a.m. on Sunday, 3 August, 1958, the long-sought North-West passage was opened up at last.  The first transpolar voyage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from Puget Sound, U.S.A., to Portland, England, was going according to plan.  90 degrees North, the top of the world – Nautilus, in a superb feat of navigation, had “pierced the Pole”.  In less than a century since Jules Verne’s mythical Nautilus had sailed its twenty-thousand leagues under the sea, this vast nuclear-powered Nautilus, with one hundred and sixteen men on board, had made the dream a modern reality.
The whole story shows this was no less stupendous an adventure because in the event they passed smoothly and in air-conditioned comfort beneath the foot-prints of Ross, Peary, Amundsen.”