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    Reference 1360 (198)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Barber, N
    Title THE WHITE DESERT: NOEL BARBER His Personal story of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
    Publishing Information London: Hodder & Stoughton,1958.
    Description 1st Edition; NOTE: This edition has more photos than the Travel Book Club Edition of the same year. and viii, 205 pages, illustrated with 31 b/w photos and 1 map. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers rubbed, minor spotting to page edges. The Author's personal account of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs in 1957/8. True Adventure of the Fuchs-Hillary Expedition to gather scientific information for the International Geophysical Year together with the author's own experiences. Barber arrived on an American plane and was the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott and his companions in 1912. Fuchs & Hillary arrived from the opposite direction by tractor.
    Price £7.50
    Keywords Byrd, Scott, expedition, adventure, Polar, qpolarq S1-Ant
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