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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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Charles McGuinness: Derry man who sent the Irish Tricolour on first flight to the South Pole

Richard E. Byrd eyeball to eyeball with Charles McGuinness in a luxury suite in the Biltmore on Madison Avenue.
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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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Assault on eternity : Richard E. Byrd and the exploration of Antarctica, 1946-47 / by Lisle A. Rose ; photos. selected by Richard R. Conger

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