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    Reference 3925 (2153)
    Category Scott;
    Author Huxley, Leonard & Markham, Clements R & Captain Scott, R F
    Title SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION. Vol 1 Journals of Captain Scott Vol.2. Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work by Dr.Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition arranged by Leonard Huxley, preface by Sir Clements Markham
    Publishing Information London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913.
    Description 1913 2nd Edition (same year as the 1st Edition) Vol 1, x, 633 pages,120 plates, 2 facsimile extracts from Scott's diary on 3 tissue paper leaves, PHOTOCOPY folding map, Original covers. Covers bumped, splitting, front cover quite rippled in one place. Front end paper and half title pages loose, MISSING pages xii to xxvi of the prelims (which were contents pages continuation and illustration lists), some minor foxing, rippling. Vol 2 Vol 2, xii, 534 pages, 84 plates plus 7 folding maps and 8 sketches in text. 1 of the 7 maps is a PHOTOCOPY. Original covers. MISSING front end papers. Collates as 2nd Edition. This is undoubtedly the most widely known of all Antarctic expeditions and publications. Readers, having absorbed Scott's account of the expedition in the first volume, would have discovered in the second volume a host of first-hand accounts deserving of more weight today: Cherry-Garrard's account of the Winter Journey, Victor Campbell's narrative of the Northern Party, Griffith Taylor on the Western Journeys, Raymond Priestley on the ascent of Erebus, preliminary scientific reports from Edward Wilson's staff and throughout the unrivalled photography of Herbert Ponting. - Taurus. Taurus 77; Books on Ice, 6.10; Rosove 290.A2; Spence 1056; Conrad p188. Priced as a reading copy.
    Price £50.00
    Keywords Antarctic, expedition, Wilson, Ross sea, Shackleton, polar S1-Sco
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