Author: SKAGGS, JIMMY M.
Title: Clipperton a History of the Island the World Forgot
Description: New York, NY: Walker & Company, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0802710905. B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. There is some beginning wear to the top spine end. "It contains a - zone of death -, Jacques Cousteau has said. Admiral Richard E. Byrd investigated the site under orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who visited there twice). Discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521, it is owned by France but named for an English pirate. It is Clipperton island, one of the most obscure, isolated, and unpleasant places on earth." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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