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[Antarctic, Polar], Mountevans

THE DESOLATE ANTARCTIC

Travel Book Club, 1951

16.50 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1951
Place of printing
London
Author
[Antarctic, Polar], Mountevans
Publishers
Travel Book Club
Languages
English

Description

First thus, book club issue. With six illustrations from expedition photographs, primarily from the Terra Nova Expedition, two of which are double-page spreads and with expedition maps as endpapers. 8vo, publisher?s original green cloth, lettered on the spine in black. 172pp A pleasing reading copy, internally very good, clean and solid. The binding faded at the spine and with minor mellowing.

Edizione: an exellent work by a great sailor and author of south with scott. lord admiral mounteveans, aka ?teddy?, served as second-in-command on robert falcon scott's ill-fated expedition to the south pole in 1910?1913 and as captain of the expedition ship terra nova. scott offered evans the position with his second expedition as a means of persuading him to drop plans for his own competing expedition to explore king edward vii land.