Icy Hell: Experiences of a News Reel Cameraman in the Aleutian Islands, Eastern Siberia and the Arctic Fringe of Alaska

Hudson, Will E.

Verlag: London Constable & Company 1937, 1937

Beschreibung

xii, 308pp. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth with gold gilt lettering stamped to the spine. Top edge dyed dark blue. Illustrated with thirty-two black and white plates from photographs by the author, including the frontispiece, as well as a folding map at the rear. Head of the spine and the bottom corners have been bumped. Original photographic dust jacket has not been price clipped, but does have some closed tears and chipping with a very small strip missing from the head of the spine. Overall a tight and clean copy. Arctic Bibl. 7518. This autobiography of news reel cameraman of the twenties and thirties follows an "account of a private hunting and exploring party's trip in the schooner "Polar Bear", (Captain Louis Lane) around the Bering Sea[.]to Kamchatka, northward to East Cape, through Bering Strait into Chukchi Sea. Then eastward to Demarcation Point, then overland by dog sledge to Ft. Yukon". Very scarce, especially with the dust jacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 142207

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Icy Hell: Experiences of a News Reel ...

Verlag: London Constable & Company 1937

Erscheinungsdatum: 1937

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag