RUSSIAN NORTHERN SEA ROUTE – GROMOV, Boris Vasil’evich. Gibel Cheliuskina . [The Loss of the “Cheliuskin”.] Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1936. The first edition of this popular account of the doomed voyage and rescue of the Cheliuskin – a heroic endeavor that was celebrated and mythologized by Stalin’s Russia as much as Shakleton’s and Scott’s voyages were in Britain. Cheliuskin , a reinforced steamship rather than an icebreaker, was sent to establish if conventional ships could sail the Northern Sea Route in a single season. It made it to the entrance of the Bering Strait before being crushed by pack ice. The crew escaped and carved a landing strip for their rescue, which had to be rebuilt more than a dozen times, all with the most rudimentary tools. The rescue pilots that found them were the first to receive the newly created Hero of the Soviet Union award – the highest possible distinction. They had been assisted by two American mechanics who were awarded the Order of Lenin. Arctic Bib. 6314. Octavo (216 x 165mm). Frontispiece; two plates printed in blue; color-printed folding map; illustrations throughout, including 21 printed in blue and mounted-in as issued (some printing affected by the adhesive from some mounted illustrations). Original blue-green cloth, the upper side centered with an ornament of polar bear in white plastic, the top right corner stamped with an ornament of a hydroplane in silver foil, the lower side with a ship stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver foil, pictorial endpapers printed in blue (front hinge neatly repaired; small loss to the rear pastedown). Provenance : Cyrillic signature on the front free endpaper – Russian bookseller’s small stamp and cancelled price – Dieter Schierenberg.
RUSSIAN NORTHERN SEA ROUTE – GROMOV, Boris Vasil’evich. Gibel Cheliuskina . [The Loss of the “Cheliuskin”.] Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1936. The first edition of this popular account of the doomed voyage and rescue of the Cheliuskin – a heroic endeavor that was celebrated and mythologized by Stalin’s Russia as much as Shakleton’s and Scott’s voyages were in Britain. Cheliuskin , a reinforced steamship rather than an icebreaker, was sent to establish if conventional ships could sail the Northern Sea Route in a single season. It made it to the entrance of the Bering Strait before being crushed by pack ice. The crew escaped and carved a landing strip for their rescue, which had to be rebuilt more than a dozen times, all with the most rudimentary tools. The rescue pilots that found them were the first to receive the newly created Hero of the Soviet Union award – the highest possible distinction. They had been assisted by two American mechanics who were awarded the Order of Lenin. Arctic Bib. 6314. Octavo (216 x 165mm). Frontispiece; two plates printed in blue; color-printed folding map; illustrations throughout, including 21 printed in blue and mounted-in as issued (some printing affected by the adhesive from some mounted illustrations). Original blue-green cloth, the upper side centered with an ornament of polar bear in white plastic, the top right corner stamped with an ornament of a hydroplane in silver foil, the lower side with a ship stamped in blind, spine lettered in silver foil, pictorial endpapers printed in blue (front hinge neatly repaired; small loss to the rear pastedown). Provenance : Cyrillic signature on the front free endpaper – Russian bookseller’s small stamp and cancelled price – Dieter Schierenberg.
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