Hell On Ice.
£35.00
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton.
Place
London
Date
1979
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 256 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has a little edge wear but otherwise a very good copy. Signed by author on title page, 1983. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white photographs and by 3 maps. Pictorial endpapers. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Account of the author's journey of four men and two women across the North Polar ice-cap in the freak winter of 1976-77, using snowmobiles to drag sledges. Two appendices provide background statistics and analysis and outline the history of Arctic travel. By Ranulph Fiennes (b.1944), former soldier and expedition leader
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