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    Reference 1703 (2572)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Ommanney, F.D
    Title SOUTH LATITUDE.
    Publishing Information London: Longmans,Green & Co.,1938.
    Description 1st Edition; x, 308 pages, end paper maps, illustrated with 16 b/w photos. Original covers in PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket. Shelf wear, Previous owners libris bookplate to half title, minor spotting, mainly to prelims and page edges. Spine shaken, splitting at hinges, covers grubby. The author was a lecturer in Zoology & made this voyage w/ the Discovery II expedition. ''It was written in odd half-hours in the routine of a ship's work, frequently in heavy seas - with the author's typewriter lashed to the cabin table. It has the sting of the salt-spray in its pages.a purely personal account of life in the Antarctic, among the whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II. We must go back to Melville's Moby Dick for anything to equal the whaling chapters.''
    Price £8.00
    Keywords whaling, Discovery, expedition, adventure, polar. S1-Ant
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