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    Reference 3733 (1987)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Swithinbank, C
    Title FOOTHOLD ON ANTARCTICA: The First International Expedition (1949-52) Through the Eyes of Its Youngest Member.
    Publishing Information The Book Guild: Sussex UK,1999. 1857764064
    Description 1st Edition: viii, 260 pages, illustrated with 100 b/w photographs, maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners inscriptin on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In 1948 Charles Swithinbank, still an undergraduate at Oxford, applied to join the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. A year later, after training in Swedish Lappland, at 22 he was the youngest member as he set out to spend two and a half years in the splendid isolation of Antarctica. The author joined the expedition on graduating from Cambridge and has since visited the Antarctic over 20 times - a fascinating insight into that first expedition.
    Price £25.00
    Keywords polar, expedition, antarctic. S1-Ant
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