#RA38
1918
96 p. 19,5x14 cm.
Illustrated throughout. Original cardboard binding. Ex-library copy: stamps, alongside with ‘withdrawn’ stamps. The book was sold by the ‘Detgiz’ library in 1990s.
One of the early books in Russian dedicated to Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole.
Aimed at juvenile audience, the book is the compilation from different sources. It came out as a supplement to the monthly magazine Iunaia Rossiya [i.e. The young Russia], in its last year of existence – because of the revolutionary changes in the Russian periodical landscape at the time, it was closed in 1918 after 59 years in existence.
Vladimir Alekseevich Gatsuk (1863-?) was a Russian ethnographer and translator, best-known for producing several editions of Russian fairy-tales, that he has recorded on his travels through the country.
Very rare. Not in the Worldcat.
