being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic.
London, Duckworth, 1930
Presentation copy. The presentation reads: 'To / My dear old friend, / Francis Drake,/ With many happy memories / and good wishes from / Ponco'. Francis Drake, paymaster and meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition, and 'Ponco' was Ponting's nickname.
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.
Ninth impression; 8vo, xxvi, 306 pp., inscribed presentation copy from Ponting Francis Drake, paymaster and meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition, 52 plate leaves including frontispiece, containing 169 photographs and illustrations, map in text, original blue cloth lettered in black, spine faded, a good copy.
Rosove 251.B8; cf. Taurus 82.
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.
Ninth impression; 8vo, xxvi, 306 pp., inscribed presentation copy from Ponting Francis Drake, paymaster and meteorologist on the Terra Nova expedition, 52 plate leaves including frontispiece, containing 169 photographs and illustrations, map in text, original blue cloth lettered in black, spine faded, a good copy.
Rosove 251.B8; cf. Taurus 82.
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