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Buy this book on-line HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS**, DAVID: : WALKING ON THIN ICE: IN PURSUIT OF THE NORTH POLE.** [Author SIGNED copy.]LONDON.ORION,1998. ISBN 0752817973.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp. FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's handwritten blue ink name/signature without dedication to title page,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, wrap-around polar scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - other than an accidental and uniform sized,top corner tips' crease to pp115/142 inclusive - no other dog-ear creases to any other pages' corners. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,2nd imp,viii-vpp+2-271pp [paginated] includes b/w line illus chapter headpieces,b/w maps,24pp colour photographs in 3 blocks interspersed within the text,appendices (4) and an index.
See my book ID rja1483 for another but unsigned,UK 1st edn copy of this same title.
In early March 1998,David Hempleman-Adams set off on a 600 mile journey which would take him into the record books as one of the most successful all-round adventurers the world has ever seen.Facing wind-chill down to minus 90 centigrade,he man-hauled his sledge to the North Pole across the constantly shifting ice of the frozen Arctic Ocean.He knew that if he succeeded he would be the first person to complete the explorers' Grand Slam,a challenge which has seen him conquer the North and South Magnetic Poles,become the first Briton to walk solo and unsupported to the South Pole,and scale the highest mountain in each of the seven continents,including Everest.Having stood on the roof of the world,he was determined to reach the top of the globe.This is the story of his all- or-nothing attempt to end a 15 year odyssey.He explains the obsession that drives him to explore the most inhospitable environment known to man,in which he is under constant threat of ravenous p
'Walking on Thin Ice' includes David's personal diary entries and radio messages to base,and recounts his day-by-day account of the preparations,training and tortuous trek to the Pole.Including extensive photographs,diagrams and maps,this is a frank and extraordinary story of heroic feat and fearless endeavour by a truly remarkable man.
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