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    Reference 3256 (2599)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Priestley, Raymond E
    Title ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE: Scott's Northern Party.
    Publishing Information London: Fisher Unwin, 1914.
    Description 1st Edition; 382 pages, illustrated, 98 b/w plates, 149 photos in all. 4 diagrams in text, 3 folding maps. Original cloth covers, top page edges gilt. Shelf wear, spine slightly faded, frontispiece with tissue guard attached is now loose and is laid in, rest of text block sound and complete. Front plain end paper has been cut neatly out at some time, spotting to page edges and margins, contents clean. An account of Scott's Terra Nova expedition, covering the adventures and amazing survival of the "Northern Party". A gripping read covering two winters, Cape Adare and Inexpressible Island,and the journey back to Ross Island to rescue themselves after the second winter. A letter from Priestley survives in which he says that many copies of this first printing were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Rosove 256.A1
    Price £440.00
    Keywords Scott, expedition, polar, Terra Nova, polar book, antarctic book S1-Ant
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