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Priestley, Raymond E.

Antarctic Adventure:Scott's Northern Party.

E. P. Dutton, New York: 1915. First American edition Royal 8vo, 382 pp., 90 pp ills., 3 folding maps. Orig. blue & silver pic. cloth expertly rebacked, but with some loss to the Dutton imprint at the foot of the spine. new endpapers. Silver gilt cover illustration bright. A good copy of a difficult book to find- many copies were destroyed during a fire at the publisher's warehouse. Forced to winter over when the Terra Nova failed to pick them up, the party eventually trekked over 230 miles of sea ice to Cape Evans. Spence 939.

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