Our Polar Flight: The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight.

AMUNDSEN, Roald and Lincoln Ellsworth.

Item Number: 72009

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925.

Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by Roald Amundsen on the front free endpaper, “For L.D. Green with kindest regards. Roald Amundsen November 17th 1927.” In very good condition, with some rubbing to the gilt portions of the cloth. First edition, second printing.

Roald Amundsen was a key expedition leader throughout the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration and the leader of the Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12, which was the first to reach the South Pole. In 1926, he became the first explorer to lead an air expedition to the North Pole, making him the first person, without dispute, to reach both poles. He is also known for leading the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06) in the Arctic. In June 1928, while taking part in a rescue mission for the airship Italia, Roald Amundsen's plane disappeared, ending his epic and heroic career.