A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration by M. B. Synge.

This is a lovely edition of A Book of Discovery: The History of the World's Exploration from the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. Synge - author of 'The Story of the World' and 'A Short History of Social Life in England.'
Undated. Published by TC & EC Jack: London & Edinburgh. 
Bound in the publishers blue pictorial cloth with beige lettering to the front cover and spine. The boards are in very good condition with some light shelf wear and some light soiling. The contents are very good - deckle edged, pages lightly age toned with slightly more browning to the preliminaries and end papers, and some age spotting to the page edges. Plain cream endpapers which are free from inscriptions. pp.554. 
Overall a very solid, attractive copy. 
Weight 1.25 kg without packaging. 
Measures: 23.5cm x 17.5cm