$260 WATKINS' LAST EXPEDITION - Freddie Spencer Chapman, Chatto and Windus, London, 1934 1st edition, Chipped very scarce jacket protected in archival film, B&W Plates, fold-out map,

WATKINS' LAST EXPEDITION - Freddie Spencer Chapman, Chatto and Windus, London, 1934 1st edition, Chipped very scarce jacket protected in archival film, B&W Plates, fold-out map, Gino Watkins's fatal East Greenland Expedition, British Army Officer Freddie Spencer Chapman's account of the ill-fated 1932-33 Greenland Expedition led by twenty-five year old explorer Henry 'Gino' Watkins. Following the discovery of Watkins' empty kayak, Chapman led a three man team across the desolate Greenland ice cap. The first to do this since Fridtjof Nansen, Chapman experienced cold of such intensity that he lost all his finger and toe nails.Watkins's body was never found Ex libris Graham Claridge, $260.

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WATKINS' LAST EXPEDITION - Freddie Spencer Chapman, Chatto and Windus, London, 1934 1st edition, Chipped very scarce jacket protected in archival film, B&W Plates, fold-out map, Gino Watkins's fatal East Greenland Expedition, British Army Officer Freddie Spencer Chapman's account of the ill-fated 1932-33 Greenland Expedition led by twenty-five year old explorer Henry 'Gino' Watkins. Following the discovery of Watkins' empty kayak, Chapman led a three man team across the desolate Greenland ice cap. The first to do this since Fridtjof Nansen, Chapman experienced cold of such intensity that he lost all his finger and toe nails.Watkins's body was never found Ex libris Graham Claridge, $260.