Madhouse at the End of the Earth. The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night. by JULIAN SANCTON - 2021

W.H.Allen, London, 2021. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 350pp. Blue boards lettered in electric blue at the spine. With colour map-illustrated endpapers, two further maps, and thirty-five black and white photographs and reproductions. A hint of wear to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding edgewear. An account of the 1897-1899 Belgian Antarctic Expedition, deemed the first expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and whose members included Frederick Cook and Roald Amundsen. Curiously uncommon in this casebound format..