Polar Books Catalogue

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    Reference 1277 (1566)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Seaver, George
    Title 'BIRDIE' BOWERS OF THE ANTARCTIC.
    Publishing Information London: John Murray,1944.
    Description 1944 Third printing: Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, xxxiii, 266 pages, 13 plates, (1 double-page reproduced from South Polar Times), 1 folding map, 1 map in text. Blue cloth covers with spine label in price clipped pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to page edges, contents clean, Dust jacket worn, slightly tatty. "About half the book deals with Bowers' Antarctic trip. Extensive quotations from other sources, primarily Cherry-Garrard's Worst Journey . . . (in which much of Bowers' Pole Trip diary was first published) and much from Bowers' weekly letters home. The letters are not easily found elsewhere."(Conrad)
    Price £20.00
    Keywords Scott, expedition, South Pole, polar. S1-Ant
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