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Little America aerial exploration in the Antarctic, the flight to the South Pole by Richard Evelyn Byrd, with 74 illustrations and maps

NPG copy 39088008417768 is not first edition. NPG copy 39088008417768 includes National Geographic Society map (folded) of "The Antarctic regions" dated c1932, inserted. Contents Notes from a journal ...
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How an airplane mechanic named Bennie Roth became the first Jew to set foot on Antarctica

When Commander Richard E. Byrd — an aviator, polar explorer and American hero who’d been feted with a ticker tape parade in New York City — was looking for the country’s best airplane mechanic to help ...
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Nazi Shadows in the Cold War: Argentina, Paperclip & Antarctica

After the war, secrets scattered across the globe. From Byrd’s sealed Antarctic files and nuclear tests over the South Pole to Argentina’s role as a Nazi haven and Operation Paperclip’s transfer of ...
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Little America : aerial exploration in the Antarctic : the flight to the South pole / by Richard Evelyn Byrd ... ; with 74 illustrations and maps

"The geological sledge trip, by Dr. Laurence M. Gould": p. 406-425. "This edition ... is limited to one thousand copies, signed by the author"--Page [1]. Title in ...