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Wednesday 31 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Esplorazioni - Amundsen, Roald

The conquest of the South Pole: the Norwegian "Fram" expedition to the Southern Pole, 1910-1912, 1913

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Milan, Treves Brothers, 1913. In 4th. Portrait of the author, with 8 color plates out of text reproducing oil paintings by WL Lehmann, 67 plates in black and white out of text, 112 engravings interspersed in the text and 4 geographic maps in color, rare and light blooms, editorial binding in canvas with color illustrated plates.

Specialist Notes

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), Norwegian explorer, conqueror of both Earth's Poles. His travels produced important & nbsp; geographical and scientific results: he was responsible for the exact location of the northern magnetic pole and was the first to complete the exploration of the South Pole in 1911-1912. With the Norge airship, commanded by Umberto Nobile, he made the polar crossing in 71 hours of flight, from the Bay of the King to Alaska, facing all kinds of weather conditions and dangers. Two years later in an attempt to rescue the airship Italia commanded by Nobile himself, trapped in the ice, he died crashing with the plane near the archipelago of the Svalbard islands. & Nbsp;