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The Book Guild, UK, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition. 1st Edition: viii, 260 pages, illustrated with 100 b/w photographs, maps. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Previous owners inscription on front end paper otherwise contents clean, appears unread. In 1948 Charles Swithinbank, still an undergraduate at Oxford, applied to join the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. A year later, after training in Swedish Lapland, at 22 he was the youngest member as he set out to spend two and a half years in the splendid isolation of Antarctica. The author joined the expedition on graduating from Cambridge and has since visited the Antarctic over 20 times - a fascinating insight into that first expedition. This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; ISBN: 1857764064. ISBN/EAN: 9781857764062. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3733. .…
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Foothold on Antarctica: The First International Expedition (1949-1952) Through the Eyes of Its Youngest Member Hardcover - 1999
by Charles Swithinbank
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- Title Foothold on Antarctica: The First International Expedition (1949-1952) Through the Eyes of Its Youngest Member
- Author Charles Swithinbank
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 228
- Publisher Book Guild Ltd, Lewes : Book Guild Ltd 1st ed 1999.
- Date 1999-12
- ISBN 9781857764062
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Foothold On Antarctica. The First International Expedition (1949-1952) Through the Eyes of its Youngest Member.
by Swithinbank Charles
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