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    Reference 1093 (2476)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Huxley, Leonard & Markham, Clements R, Wilson E & Captain Scott, R F
    Title SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION. 3rd Edition
    Publishing Information London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913
    Description 3rd Edition; Vol2, xii,534 pages, illustrated, 84b/w photos plus 7 folding maps and 8 sketches in text. Original covers, no dust jacket. Both volumes, shelf wear, covers stained, some minor wrinkling, foxing to pages, contents clean, text blocks shaken but still firm. Volume 1 covers damp staining to rear.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.A3; Spence 1056; Conrad p188.
    Price £40.00
    Keywords Antarctic, expedition, Wilson, Ross sea, Shackleton, polar S1-Ant
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