Shadows on the Wasteland: Crossing Antarctica with Ranulph Fiennes (Mike Stroud) lands on the shelves of my shop, where it will be found in my Exploration shelves. priced at £6.50! Call in and get 40% OFF that price when you mention this post…
London: Jonathan Cape, 1993, (First Edition) Hardback in dust wrapper.
Contains: Colour photographs; Maps [1]; Tables; Maps to the endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: When Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud ended their journey on foot across Antarctica earlier this year, they were frostbitten and close to starvation. They had made the first coast to coast crossing of the continent unsupported by men, animals or machines and were too weak to continue over the floating Ross ice-shelf to open water. They had begun ninety-five days earlier by pulling nearly 500lbs each of essential food and fuel on sledges and on the way endured wind-chill temperatures as lo…
Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 182 pages. Bibliography. 9½” x 6¼”.
