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Charles McGuinness: Derry man who sent the Irish Tricolour on first flight to the South Pole

What, asked Byrd, are the best two jobs you ever did? "Breaking Frank Carty out of prison under a death sentence. Escaping myself under similar circumstances. I consider those two good jobs,” replied ...
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Little America aerial exploration in the Antarctic, the flight to the South Pole by Richard Evelyn Byrd, with 74 illustrations and maps

NPG copy 39088008417768 is not first edition. NPG copy 39088008417768 includes National Geographic Society map (folded) of "The Antarctic regions" dated c1932, inserted. Contents Notes from a journal ...
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Daring flight removes sick workers from South Pole

SANTIAGO, Chile-Two people who fell ill while working at the U.S. research station at the South Pole have been evacuated by a small plane that made the daring rescue flight in Antarctica's harsh ...
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Little America : aerial exploration in the Antarctic : the flight to the South pole / by Richard Evelyn Byrd ... ; with 74 illustrations and maps

"The geological sledge trip, by Dr. Laurence M. Gould": p. 406-425. "This edition ... is limited to one thousand copies, signed by the author"--Page [1]. Title in ...