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Published by Miles Apart, 1996
ISBN 10: 0091085101ISBN 13: 9780091085100
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards and dust jacket show slight signs of shelf wear. All pages are intact and unmarked, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 0091085101ISBN 13: 9780091085100
Seller: Polar Books, Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st UK Edition; 190 pages, illustrated, colour frontispiece, 15 b/w photographs. Original covers in pictorial unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket repaired, discrete booksellers stamp to verso front cover, contents clean. Engaging book tells the story of Nan Brown's years as a young housewife, 1 of only 3 women, on the island of South Georgia in the Falklands. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. ISBN: 0091085101. ISBN/EAN: 9780091085100. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3467.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1971
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 190. Plates. Original cloth. Price-clipped d/w. Spine faded. A very nice copy.
Published by Hutchinson of Australia, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1996
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). A marvellous account of life on South Georgia in Antarctica, inscribed and presented by the late author's husband. Nan Brown (1928-1995) relocated to King Edward Point with her husband, radio operator George, in the 1950s and penned this work about her time and experiences on South Georgia. Here, she describes island life, the excitement of the flora, fauna and penguins in particular, as well as the tenser moments of life in the Arctic. This work contains comments on the Norwegian whalers at Grytviken, as well as the people of King Edward Point.From the library of Eric Kenneth Prentice Back. Kenn Back was a British meteorologist with the British Antarctic survey for many years. He spent eight winters in the Antarctic and is a descendent of Captain George Back. In addition, he served as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations. His library collection was built over decades and highlights his love of polar exploration.Gifted to Kenn Back by the late author's husband George, with a personal inscription. In a full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition. Ownership bookplate to the front endpaper, inscription by the author's husband to the title page. Near Fine. book.
Published by Hutchinson of Australia, Melbourne, 1971
ISBN 10: 0091085101ISBN 13: 9780091085100
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Mild age-toning to dustjacket and some offset to free endpapers. Inscribed by the author to previous owner. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 190 pages. The author's two and a half years on the sub-arctic island of South Georgia in the Falklands with highlights which include accounts of the flora and fauna on the island.
Published by Penguin Random House, 1996
ISBN 10: 0091085101ISBN 13: 9780091085100
Book
Hardback. 1971, First edition. A near fine copy only marked by light age tanning of the edges and endpapers. The d/w is unclipped and also near fine with only a couple of short, repaired edge tears. Now in a protective cover. Scans available if required.
Publication Date: 1971
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Colour frontispiece. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with the pictorial dustjacket; a few nicks and small tears to extremities, mended with tape. Kenn Back's attractive bookplate to ffep. [iv], 190pp. London, Hutchinson, Nan Brown spent two and a half years living on South Georgia in the Falkland Islands, accompanying her husband, who was running the island's radio station. Women's perspectives on the Antarctic regions are uncommon, indeed it wasn't until 1935 that Caroline Mikkelsen was the first recorded woman to set foot on the mainland. Brown's book contains a particularly fine account of the flora and fauna of the island. This copy from the library of Kenn Back, meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey 1963-2002.