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WATANABE, Seiichiro. Yukihara ni Idomu Shirase Chui: Shinkou Shirarezaru Hi-ro-Kainanmaru Sencho Nomura Naokichi [in English: Lieutenant Shirase and the Challenge of the Snow Fields: The Unknown Hero: Nomura Naokichi, Captain of the Kainan Maru. Akita Prefecture: Akita Sakigake Shinpou sha, 10 May 1982.
Small 8vo (184 x 108 mm). Frontispiece portraits of Shirase and Nomura, numerous illustrations from photographs in text. Original printed wrappers; original dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. A detailed double biography of Nobu Shirase covering his life from childhood up to his death, along with a biography telling the life and contributions of the unsung hero of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition, Naokichi Nomura, Captain of the “Kainan Maru”. The author had access to many unpublished photographs that appear in this book for the first time. Ross 2.9.1 (“Scarce”).