Polar Books Catalogue

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    Reference 1705 (1976)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Ommanney, F.D
    Title SOUTH LATITUDE.
    Publishing Information London: Longmans,Green & Co., Readers Union, 1940.
    Description Readers Union Edition; (3), 308 pages, illustrated, map on front end papers, 8 b/w photos. No dust jacket, Pictorial Laminated Covers. Shelf wear, Spine faded and split, previous owners signature in pencil on half title, contents clean. 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
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