South to the Pole The Early History of the Ross Sea Sector, Antarctica
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Quarto, cream-coloured cloth, spine has a navy-blue label with gilt lettering, xx, 482 pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, 14 double-sided black-and-white plates, one fold-out map included. Tail end of spine a little bumped, spine foxed, cover a little discoloured, binding split at leaf 247 but holding firm; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. A comprehensive and evocative early history of the exploration of the Ross Sea Sector in Antarctica written by New Zealander Leslie B. Quartermain, author of Two Huts in the Antarctic. Item #4687
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