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First edition of Frederick Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English.
First edition of Frederick Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English.
First edition of Frederick Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English.
First edition of Frederick Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English.
First edition of Frederick Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English.

COOK, Frederick A.

Through the First Antarctic Night. 1898-99. A narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South Pole.

London, William Heinemann, 1900.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

Through the First Antarctic Night. 1898-99.

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'One of the finest and most interesting from any Antarctic expedition' (Rosove). Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English. Among the crew was the young Roald Amundsen on his first expedition, who subsequently wrote admiringly of Cook's 'courage, unfailing hope, endless cheerfulness'.

First UK edition; 8vo (24 x 17 cm); 4 colour plates including frontis., 106 black and white photograph illustrations, 19 in-text vignettes, 2 in-text maps; publisher's light blue cloth with pictorial vignette to upper board, gilt lettering to spine, extremities slightly rubbed, text a little cocked, spine a little faded, a very good copy; xxiv, 478 pp.

Rosove 76.A3; cf Taurus 19 (limited edition).

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First edition of Frederick Cook's Through the First Antarctic Night. Cook's narrative of the first Belgian expedition to the Antarctic, under Gerlache de Gomery, was the only first-hand account of the expedition published in English.

Through the First Antarctic Night. 1898-99.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

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