The Crossing of Antarctica by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary

The Crossing of Antarctica

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58

by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary

Cassell & Company, 1958, [First Edition], colour photographic plates, illustrated endpapers (maps), colour photographic frontispiece, hardcover

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on half title page, old price on front endpaper (see photographs)

““A story of courage and enterprise, of endurance and cheerfulness, that will stir the hearts and minds of young people of all ages for generations to come.” – Sir Edward Appleton FRS, in The Scotsman.
“Although the everlasting ice remains as the background to all that happens, it is a story on an altogether more human scale which finally emerges, and which gives this account its particular interest. Photographs which must leave even a reader familiar with Alpine and Himalayan colouring admiring and amazed.” – The Times..”

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