Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole

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xvi, 422 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, photographic endpapers. Includes black & white photographs and four maps, including two fold-outs of: the Bay of Whales; and the region from the Ross Sea to the South Pole, showing routes of various flights and sledge trips of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Byrd was a U.S. naval officer who organized efforts to explore the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and claimed to have been the first to reach both poles by air (though experts credit Amundsen). Show more