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J.W. Eides Forlag, Bergen, Norway, 1958., c 1918. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo, hardcover, VG in red cloth spine, green and white decorative boards. No dj. All in Norwegian. 275 pages; Illustrated with plates, partly in Colour. frontis of Fuchs. Christensen was a whaler and explorer, his ships Norvegia and Thorshaven were used by Admiral Richard Byrd in the exploration of Antartica. In 1936 Lars, while maping Enderby Land by air with Mrs. Christensen accompanying him in the plane, discovered the Prince Harald Coast. The Lars Christensen Coast and Ingred Christensen Coast are named after them and may be located on a map of the Antartic. The United States recognizes no country's claim on the Antartic. Photo end papers.

Bergen: J. W. Eides Forlag, [1958]. 275pp, [1]. Illustrated with 32 pages of monochrome photographs and 16 pages in full colour. Original publisher's red cloth-backed decorated paper boards, pictorial dustwrapper. A trifle rubbed and marked, some slight shipping to dustwrapper. Endpapers browned, bookplate of George Lowe to FEP. The first Norwegian edition of an account of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-1958, and the first successful overland crossing of Antarctic, by the expedition leader Sir Vivian Fuchs, and head of the support team Sir Edmund Hillary. From the library of New Zealand-born mountaineer George Lowe (1924-2013), a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29th May. The day prior, Lowe had led an advance guard, wielding an ice axe with legendary skill, to cut a path into the… Read More