The Voyage of the "Why not?" in the Antarctic: The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910 ; With Numerous ill. From Photographs

Jean-Baptiste Charcot; Philip Walsh

Hodder and Stoughton, 1911

Bound in publisher's cloth, with penguin on spine and gilt image of the Pourquoi-pas? ship in an ice-filled sea on front. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings.  Numerous "withdrawn" stamps. viii, 315 pages. Fold out frontis & 42 plates. Conrad, p 152; Renard 296; Spence 262; Rosove 67.A2; Taurus 66.  

  Charcot's account of his two-year scientific research expedition aboard the Pourquoi-Pas?. He charted 3,000 kilometers of previously unknown Antarctic coastline, exploring the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island.