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    Category Antarctic;
    Author Ponting, Herbert G
    Title THE GREAT WHITE SOUTH: Being an Account of Experiences With Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic.
    Publishing Information London: Duckworth,1921.
    Description 1st Edition: First published in 1921 All rights reserved. (Over 80 editions of this work were published, this is the rare first edition) xxvi, 306 pages, 97 plates including frontispiece, (the majority from Ponting's photographs), 1 map in text. With an Introduction by Lady Scott. Rebound quarter leather. Contents clean. All illustrations as called for. The author took part in and recounts the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913, led by Captain Robert Scott. Widely regarded as the "best outdoor cameraman in the world", Ponting was invited by Scott to join his expedition; "During the long Antarctic winter of 1911 he developed all his breathtaking photographs and thousands of feet of film, as well as teaching photography to his companions and entertaining them with lantern slide lectures on his travels.
    Price £125.00
    Keywords Scott, Terra Nova, expedition, Antarctic, polar. S1-Ant
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