Edward Wilson Of The Antarctic
£30.00
Publisher
John Murray, Albemarle Street, W.
Place
London
Date
1940
Synopsis
Naturalist and friend. with an introduction by apsley cherry-garrard. cheap edition. with half-tone and four-colour illustrations, maps and facsimiles of some pages from his diary.
Item Description
8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xxxiv + 301 + [1] pp. Bound in original pale blue cloth, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper with sunned spine, edge wear and repaired tear on front. Page edges and preliminaries, including title page foxed. 1946 inscription on first free endpaper; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by colour portrait frontispiece and by 19 plates including sketches by Edward Wilson, by facsimiles, three maps, one folding and by table. Biography of Dr Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912), naturalist, artist, and friend of Lawrence Oates and Robert Falcon Scott. Wilson accompanied Scott on the Discovery expedition of 1901-04 and on the last, Terra Nova, expedition in 1910-12. Long introduction by Apsley Cherry-Gerrard (1886-1959), Antarctic who was a member of the supporting team of the expedition. First published 1933.
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