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    Category Antarctic;
    Author Fuchs, Sir Vivian & Hillary, Sir Edmund
    Title The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58 [Cadet Edition, edited by Andrew Scotland]
    Publishing Information London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1964
    Description 1964 Cadet Edition; xviii, 136 pages, illustrated, b/w photos,maps. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Shelfware,dust jacket grubby with closed tear, Scholarship award bookplate on front end paper. Contents clean. This book tells the story of the 1957 Trans-Antarctic expedition when 12 men set out from Shackleton base equipped with 8 vehicles, sledges and two dog teams to cross more than two thousand miles of unexplored snow and ice, this is the fascinating account of the expedition. Meanwhile on the other side of the Antarctic continent Sir Edmund Hillary probed the immense Skelton Glacier from the Ross Sea and blazed a trail for the crossing party to follow. To him goes the honour of the achievement of reaching the South Pole by land for the first time since Captain Scott planted a British flag there some forty six years earlier.
    Price £3.00
    Keywords Scott, polar, qpolarq S1-Ant
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