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PONTING, Herbert G.

The Great White South

The Great White South

being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic.

Stock Code 116817

London, Duckworth, 1921

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Ponting's Great White South documents the exploits and tragedy of Scott's last expedition, creating in the process the most evocative Antarctic photographs ever created.

First edition; 8vo (24 x 16.5 cm); 52 plate leaves including frontispiece containing 169 photographs and illustrations, map in text, prelims a little spotted, a few very discreet pencil annotations; publisher's gilt cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a little external wear, spine faded, internally a very good copy; xxvi, 306 pp.,

Rosove 251.B8; cf. Taurus 82.

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