A Wartime Biography of Japanese Polar Explorer, in Jacket
[Lt. Shirase's Explorations] Shirase chui tankenki
First Edition. Technically the second edition of Shirase Nobu's biography (1861–1946), including an account of the Chishima Islands expedition in the Arctic, as well as of the first Japanese Antarctic Expedition, which Shirase led from 1910 to 1912. The first edition of this book was reproduced from typescript in 1940.....
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