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    Reference 1243 (2626)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Seaver, George (Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard)
    Title EDWARD WILSON OF THE ANTARCTIC: Naturalist and Friend.
    Publishing Information London: John Murray,1934.
    Description 1st Edition, 5th printing May 1934; xxxiv, 301 pages, 26 plates (7 in colour including frontispiece), 3 maps (1 folding), 49 drawings in text. (All illustrations In this edition are by Wilson with the exception of the frontispiece and the final portraits. Introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Original covers in a later PHOTOCOPIED dust jacket for protection, previous owners bookplate on verso front cover, some minor spotting, mainly to page edges. This copy also has a very lovely tipped in water colour plate on the rear of the frontispiece entitled Mt. Erebus 1911, Ed. Wilson. Wilson was a physician, naturalist, ornithologist, painter and naturalist on both of Robert Scott's expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of three who undertook a winter expedition to the rookeries of the Emperor penguin, the subject of Cherry Apsley-Garrard's book "The Worst Journey in the World". On the "Terra Nova" voyage, he was one of the group who raced to reach the South Pole, only to find that Amundsen had beat the British there. On the return journey, he and his companions died, a national tragedy in England at the time.
    Price £25.00
    Keywords Scott, expedition, South Pole, polar. S1-Ant
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