South with Scott : New Illustrated Edition
Rare and modern books
Mountevans, Admiral Lord
Collins,
1949
South with Scott : New Illustrated Edition
Rare and modern books
Mountevans, Admiral Lord
Collins,
1949
12.50 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1949
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Mountevans, Admiral Lord
- Publishers
- Collins
- Size
- 7.25 x 4.5 inches
- Keyword
- Exploration, Antarctic, 1910s
- Cover description
- Very Good
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked but foxed medium blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Lightly foxed dust jacket price clipped but not torn or creased with nicks to ends of sunned spine and to lower rear edge. 288pp. The author was second in command of Scott's tragic expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He survived because he fell victim to scurvy and was dragged to to a deserted camp on the Great Ice Barrier. From there he was taken back to England to recover. With maps at the end and photographs throughout.
