Onze boeken
Delen:
The Lonely South
Door André Migot
| Categorie | Schepen & Scheepvaart |
|---|---|
| Boeknummer | #367898 |
| Titel | The Lonely South |
| Auteur | Migot, André |
| Boektype | Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag |
| Uitgeverij | London : The Travel Book Club |
| Jaar van uitgave | 1956 |
| Taal | Engels |
| Beschrijving | Original boards, dust jacket, Illustrated with few b/w drawings and photographs, 8vo. |
| Samenvatting | André Migot is a French doctor with a remarkable aptitude for solitary meditation and active adventure which led him of the journey into Tibet so memorably described in Tibetan Marches. On his return from the Far East in 1953 he had a new opportunity to indulge these tastes in different surroundings. He volunteered to spend a year in Kerguelen in the remote and stormy south of the Indian Ocean with the French scientific mission on those islands. During his year in exile he was able to enjoy studying not only the peculiar and remarkably friendly sea-elephants, penguins and other creatures that come to breed in this forbidding landscape, but also the effects on long and enforced isolation on his companions less fitted than himself to use and value solitude. When his tour was almost over, and weaker spirits were thinking only of home, he seized the opportunity of accompanying an Australian scientific mission to Mawson on the Antarctic continent. They journey in an icebreaker, smashing their way south through pack-ice to the land, and when the mission was deposited at the lonely little base, Dr Mignot remained on the ship, which then pursued her voyage of exploration through bitter storms, skirting the strangest and most perilous country on earth. |
| Pagina's | 206 |
| Conditie | Goed — Spine slightly discoloured, edges dust jacket trifle frayed and tears repaired with tape. |
| Prijs | € 25,00 |
Toevoegen aan winkelwagenZie ook
Onze gebruikte boeken verkeren in goede tweedehands staat, tenzij hierboven anders beschreven. Kleine onvolkomenheden zijn niet altijd vermeld.
