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    Reference 4040 (2383)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Priestley, Raymond E with a foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs
    Title ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE: Scott's Northern Party.
    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    Description 1974 Reprint with a new foreword by Sir Vivian Fuchs and 3 previously unpublished poems.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, pages 1 to 376, folding map, 4 pages of "The songs of Scott's Northern Party", pages 377 to 382. Illustrated, Frontispiece plus b/w photos, 3 folding maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Covers and contents clean and bright a nice copy. Previous owners bookplate verso front cover otherwise contents clean. A letter from Priestley survives in which he states 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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