Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, the Flight to the South Pole

xvi, 422 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles, photographic endpapers. Includes black & white photographs and four maps, including two fold-outs of: the Bay of Whales; and the region from the Ross Sea to the South Pole, showing routes of various flights and sledge trips of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Byrd was a U.S. naval officer who organized efforts to explore the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and claimed to have been the first to reach both poles by air (though experts credit Amundsen).