The White South (Large Print) by Innes, Hammond - 1971

Leicester, England.: Ulverscroft., 1971. Large type / large print. Stated 1st, this edition.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Jacket has spine edge wear, minor sun fade to jack spine. Book has wobble. Slight spine tilt. Lower wear to boards.. 1 First edition. Maroon cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Audience: General/trade. Fiction set during the whaling seafaring days. The Southern Cross whaling ship of more than 20K tons, a factory-ship, is caught and crushed in the Polar ice of Antarctica. Some 500 men face agonizing death. A last plea had been made with no answer from the outside world. All help had been abandoned. Later, the ice fields yielded their cruel secret.