By Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927 First Edition, [x] 324pp, Index, 8vo, 23.9 cm. with 32 black-and-white photos, fold-out black-and-white map. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in bright gilt on the spine and de-bossed title on the upper cover. A Near Fine copy with prior owner’s debossed name on title page, no foxing, folds or tears; firm uncracked hinges and bindings – very clean inside and out. A Near Fine copy. —Arctic Bibliography 409.

A first-person narrative by Amundsen, Ellsworth, and First-Lieutenants in the Royal Norwegian Navy Riiser-Larsen and Leif Dietrichson of the planning and flight from continent to continent, via the North Pole, in May 1925. The flight was undertaken in the Italian dirigible N1 (Norge). The explorers advanced as far as 88 degrees north before being forced to turn back. A well-preserved copy of this important narrative.

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