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    Reference 1529 (203)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Bowman, Gerald
    Title FROM SCOTT TO FUCHS.
    Publishing Information London: Evans Brothers,1958.
    Description 1st Edition; 191pp, photgraphic frontispiece plus 12 plates, maps in text. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine.No dustjacket. History of Antarctic exploration, written just after Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary conquered Antarctica; the author places this achievement into historical context by relating it to the previous expeditions of Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, and Byrd; includes an appendix giving a 'list of the explorers, from the earliest known to the present day, whose names are perpetuated on the charts of Antarctica; Gift inscription on fep, spine bumped, minor markings to covers. Very Good.
    Price £5.00
    Keywords qpolarq, Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, Byrd, Fuchs, Hillary, polar, Antarctic. S1-Ant
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