1912 Die Eroberung des Sudpols

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first German language edition of this work, published in the same year as both the English language and Norwegian first editions, and in the publisher's original bright pictorial cloth binding.

The work of Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a key figure in the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and for leading the first successful team to reach the South Pole. This is Amundsen's account of his journey to the pole, and his own observations about the means by which he reached the South Pole before Robert Falcon Scott's British Expedition could do so.

Illustrated with four colour plates and one folding colour map to volume I, and one folding plate, and double page colour map, and four colour plates to volume II. Collated, complete

With eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.