Mind Over Matter The Epic Crossing Of The Antarctic Continent.
£35.00
Publisher
Sinclair-Stevenson.
Place
London
Date
1993
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. ix+ [i] + 326 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. Slight sunning of spine, but otherwise a very good copy. Signed by author on title page. Illustrated by 32 pages of colour photographs and by 12 maps and diagrams. Map endpapers. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Account of the longest unsupported journey in Polar history. The two men, Dr Michael Stroud and Sir Ranulph Fiennes (b.1944), former soldier and expedition leader, dragged 500-pound sledges across the Antarctic continent for 97 days, 1992-93. Two appendices provide background statistics and analysis and summarise the topography and history of the continent.
[Stock No. 30054]
