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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First American Edition. 8vo. (22 cm.) 153p. Illustrated with 17 black and white captioned photos and maps. Blue paper made to look like cloth over boards with gilt letters on the spine. Fine with no noticeable wear to extremities, clean, and bright covers, bright gilt, and not internal markings. Dust jacket fine and not price clipped. Born in 1898, H.W. Tilman served with Royal Artillery on the Western Front and later spent 14 years frowing coffee in East Africa. He established a distinguished reputation as a mountain climber, taking part in numerous expeditions, including the Mount Everest Reconnaissance of 1935. He eventually took to sailing, voyaging in various converted old pilot vessels to the Antarctic, Patagonia and the Arctic. He was awarded the Blue Water Medial of the Cruising Club of American and the Goldsmith Exploration Award of the Royal Cruising Club. As a write of 15 travel books, he is renowned for his wit and apt quotations. When not on his expeditions, he lives as a bachelor in Barmouth, Wales. [from the dust jacket] TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY tells of several voyages: first around the island of Vestspitzbergen, which took the Baroque within 600 miles of the North Pole; the other two voyages described in this book took the Baroque to different parts of Greenland, including sailing up the west coast far beyond the Arctic Circle. Truly a book of nautical adventure!