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Author Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957.

Title Little America, aerial exploration in the Antarctic : the flight to the South pole / by Richard Evelyn Byrd, with 74 illustrations and maps.

Publication Info. New York; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  919.9 BY 996.3    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  919.9 BYRD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  919.9    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  919.89 BYRD    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 422 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, maps (part folded) ; 24 cm
Note Illustrated lining-papers.
"First edition."
"The geological sledge trip, by Dr. Laurence M. Gould": p. 393-412.
Contents Notes from a journal -- The plan: the preparation and the problem -- Through the pack -- We establish a base -- The battle to unload -- Discovery by flight -- Discovery of a new land to the eastward -- Incident of the Rockefeller Mountains -- WInter: birth of a city -- Civilization does not matter -- More plans and preparations -- The start of the southern parties -- The base-laying flight -- Flight to the South Pole -- Eastward beyond the horizon -- Death of a city -- The geological sledge trip.
Subject Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1st : 1928-1930)
Antarctica -- Aerial exploration.
Aeronautics -- Flights.
South Pole.
Added Author Gould, Laurence McKinley, 1896-1995. Geological sledge trip.
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