Polar Books Catalogue
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Sections : Antarctic; Arctic; Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society; Maps; Miscellaneous; Mountaineering; General Polar; Scott; Other travel; Whaling;
Reference 1706 (1975) Category Antarctic; Author Ommanney, F.D Title SOUTH LATITUDE. Publishing Information London: Longmans,Green & Co.,1947. Description Reprinted by Novographic Process 1947 Edition; x, 308 pages, illustrated, map endpapers, b/w photos. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers stained, spine sunned, spotting to page edges. The author was a lecturer in zoology and made this voyage with the Discovery II expedition. ''It was written in odd half-hours in the routine of a ship's work, frequently in heavy seas, with the author's typewriter lashed to the cabin table. It has the sting of the salt-spray in its pages, a purely personal account of life in the Antarctic, among the whalers in South Georgia and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II. We must go back to Melville's Moby Dick for anything to equal the whaling chapters.'' Price £2.00 Keywords whaling, Discovery, expedition, adventure, polar. S1-Ant ISBN Add this to your basket