Jean-Baptiste Charcot - Le Pourquoi-pas ? dans l'Antarctique

Exciting original illustrated edition with numerous illustrations and reproductions of photographs (including several full-page) in the text, 3 fold-out maps outside the text - The narrative takes the form of a logbook in which daily observations, the ship's movements, navigational difficulties, geographical discoveries and scientific work are progressively recorded, giving the reader a very concrete view of life aboard a polar expedition at the beginning of the 20th century - Le Pourquoi-pas ?, a ship specially designed and adapted to the demands of exploring the southern seas, becomes in the course of the narrative a true floating laboratory, carrying a team composed of sailors, scientists and technicians whose complementary skills allow observations in fields as varied as geography, meteorology, geology, zoology, botany, oceanography, terrestrial physics or the study of glaciers - Jean-Baptiste Charcot - Le Pourquoi-pas ? in Antarctica. Journal of the second expedition to the South Pole (1908-1910), followed by the scientific reports of the officers of the general staff - 1908 - Ernest Flammarion - VII-428 Pages. Good condition of the binding, the work in its original half-leather, marbled boards, covers and spine preserved, wear from use, corners worn, gilded edges, smooth decorated spine, titling, author's name and date gilded - Good interior condition, browning, small vignette on the title page, work enriched with numerous illustrations and reproductions of photos (including several full-page) in the text, 3 fold-out maps outside the text, clean text, marbled endpapers in good condition, pleasant copy - Delivery service guaranteed within a few days -

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