From Top of the World Books, LLC, Hinesburg, VT, U.S.A.
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2011 Australia, 1st thus, 8vo, pp.95, photo frontis, 8 color plates, 5 bw photos, 4 pencil sketches, 2 maps, uncut, dec eps, dec tri-fold cloth; issued w/o dj, cloth new. ----- A collection of two manuscripts regarding the Winter Journey undertaken by three of Capt. Scott s men (Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Wilson) to the Emperor Penguin rookery at Cape Crozier as part of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13). Cherry-Garrard described the journey in his classic book The Worst Journey in the World . Collected here, for the first time, are the manuscript accounts by the other two participants. Wilson s original 40-page manuscript is titled Sledge Journey to Cape Crozier from Cape Evans June 27th 1911 to Aug. 1st 1911 . Interspersed are pencil sketches and margin notes (possibly by Scott or Cherry-Garrard). This report was published in volume 2 of Scott s Last Expedition but with only one pencil sketch. Bowers 16-page manuscript is titled 'Winter Journey - Dr. Wilson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard & Lieutenant H. R. Bowers, Midwinter 1911'. Temperatures during this dark journey reached as low as minus 77ºF. These two historic manuscripts were sold at auction in 2009 for £135,000 and are an important companion to Cherry-Garrard s account. Seller Inventory # 26087
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Title: A Tale for Our Generation: An Account of the...
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Book Type: Book
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