POLAR FLIGHT

BASIL CLARKE

IAN ALLAN, LONDON
1964

First edition.
This is a magnificent story of man's courage and impatience to reach the geographic poles by using one mode of travel—flight. As the airship and then the aeroplane increased in reliability and range, they were seized upon by the early explorers to gain fame in Polar exploration.

Within this book is a parade of hardy men of the heroic age of exploration who risked their lives in aircraft still in an early stage of development. Basil Clarke has put together an absorbing narrative which records not only the pioneering achievements of those men and their machines but much of the behind-the-scenes activity which made those achievements possible.

23 x 15 cm. 187 pp + b/e photo plates. Map endpapers.

Very good condition. Price clipped dust jacket edge worn. Cloth mottled on the spine. Previous owner’s small address label on the front free endpaper, contents clean and tidy.