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    Reference 1150 (2205)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Priestley, Raymond E
    Title ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE: Scott's Northern Party. With a foreward by Sir Vivian Fuchs
    Publishing Information London: C. Hurst & Company, 1974. 0903983265
    Description 1974 Reprint with a new foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs and 3 previously unpublished poems. x, 3-376, 4, 377-382, (4). Frontispiece 88 plates, 3 folding maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket is covered in plastic and stuck to covers, previous owners name and date in ink on front end paper. Contents clean. A letter from Priestley survives in which he says that many copies of the first printing of this book (1914) were destroyed in a warehouse fire. An account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, here covering the wild adventures and amazing survival of the so-called Northern Party, an episode which may in our time achieve greater popularity than the dour tragedy of Scott's polar march. Rosove 256.B1.
    Price £50.00
    Keywords Scott, expedition, polar, Terra Nova, S1-Ant
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