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    Category Antarctic;
    Author Members of the Discovery Expedition, Scott, R.F., Shackleton, Ernest H. (Editor), Wilson, E and Others
    Title SOUTH POLAR TIMES VOLUME I. "Discovery Expedition" VOLUME 1 ONLY
    Publishing Information London: Smith Elder, 1907.
    Description 1st Limited Edition: This is copy 43 of a limited edition of 250. Original covers, no dust jacket, all page edges gilt. Copiously illustrated drawings in the text and full-page plates from sketches and paintings by E. Wilson and others. Gutta-percha binding very delicate with leaves just loosening. Ex Library with various library stamps on some pages. (The weight of the text blocks, which would tax even traditionally bound volumes, has in most cases proved too much for the Gutta percha, which is now mostly perished). The South Polar Times was a magazine written and printed by the members of Antarctic Expeditions during the various voyages they undertook. The South Polar Times form what is perhaps the most personal of the printed documents to have come out of that most remarkable of periods of Antarctic adventures revealing so many often contradictory aspects of these men's various personalities. 'During the Antarctic winter of 1902 and 1903, the officers of the National Antarctic Expedition on board the Discovery, among other diversions wherewith to lighten the long and dreary darkness, brought out at monthly intervals a periodical to which they gave the name of "The South Polar Times" the contents of which range over a wide field, grave and gay, scientific and humorous, prose and poetry. It contains a diary of the events of each month, a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society, a monthly acrostic, humorous notes, besides articles of a more solid nature, as well as stories, sketches of various kinds, and poems of a standard considerably above average.' One of the corner stones of an Antarctic collection.
    Price £4750.00
    Keywords Shackleton, Expedition. S1-Ant
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