Polar Books Catalogue
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Sections : Antarctic; Arctic; Miscellaneous; Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society; Maps; Miscellaneous; Mountaineering; General Polar; Scott; Other travel; Whaling;
Reference 492 (1375) Category Antarctic; Author Levick, George M Title ANTARCTIC PENGUINS; A STUDY OF THEIR SOCIAL HABITS. Publishing Information London, New York: William Heinemann, Robert M. McBride & Co.,1915. Description 1st American Edition, 3rd impression January 1915; x, 149pages, photographic frontispiece with tissue paper guard, 74 b/w photographic illustrations. Original olive green cloth, gilt titling to spine, front cover gilt lettered with blind stamped with 2 penguins. Covers faded with some stains, pages aget toned with some moderate foxing, some pages slightly warped. Like Rosove 205.A2 but still with advertisements on half-title verso and with both publishers. Rosove 205: "Levick was a surgeon on Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) and member of the six-man northern party. This book is a delightful volume in which Levick narrates not of the men's lives at Cape Adare but rather those of the Adelie penguins during the nesting season." Price £45.00 Keywords Scott, Terra Nova, expedition, polar, Cape Adare, qpolarq. S1-Ant ISBN Add this to your basket