THE VOYAGE OF THE 'POURQUOI-PAS?', THE JOURNAL OF THE SECOND FRENCH SOUTH POLAR EXPEDITION 1908-1910; With a new foreword by Paul-Emile Victor
Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1978. Hardcover. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.75 in., pp. xxi + 315. Fascimile copy of the 1911 First English Edition.Black cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Small chips to bottom front corners of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. Near Fine / Very Good Plus. Item #85644
First published in French as "Autour du Pole Sud: Expedition du 'Pourquoi-Pas?'" by Flammarion, 1910. First printed in English as "The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic" by Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Reprinted in 1978 by offset lithography in UK and USA.
The "Pourquoi-Pas?", a ship built by Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), was the "most modern and comfortable Polar vessel of its time. Charcot sailed it from Cherbourg on his second expedition in August 1908 and, before returning to Le Havre in June 1910, he had explored 3000 kilometres of unknown coastline in the Antarctic... (The expedition) produced a rich harvest of scientific observation in the fields of meteoerology, glaciology, geology, and especially, zoology. (from the dustjacket).
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