Below the Roaring Forties: An Antarctic Journal
by Ommanney, F. D. (Francis Downes)
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About This Item
London, Longmans, Green, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover. ix, 308 p., 16 halftone photographs, endpaper maps; 22 cm. 'First Edition.' Published in England as South Latitude. 'The 'Discovery' Expedition, equipped and sent out on the recommendation of a committee of the [British] Colonial Office in 1924 to inquire into the biology of whales in the Falkland sector of the Antarctic, had built a biological station at Grytviken, in South Georgia, from which scientists had been making careful notes on the whale carcasses at the neighbouring whaling station for the last five years.' A detailed description of the Norwegian Antarctic whaling and sealing operations by the naturalist of the Discovery II Expedition. Stock# 39,297.Good+, blue cloth covers stamped in silver; spine darkened/ no dj. Exploration, natural science, zoology; memoir; Southern Ocean.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39297
- Title
- Below the Roaring Forties: An Antarctic Journal
- Author
- Ommanney, F. D. (Francis Downes)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Longmans, Green, 1938
- Keywords
- Whaling
- Bookseller catalogs
- Transportation: Nautical; Exploration and Discovery;
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