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Publicado por ACE, West Perth, 2011
Librería: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
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Boards. 1st edition thus. 1st edition thus, pp.96, colour and b/w plates and maps, uncut, hardcover. Fine. A transcription from the original manuscript by Edward Adrian Wilson written in the Antarctic Winter of 1911 and titled "Sledge Journey to Cape Crozier from Cape Evans June 27th 1911 to Aug. 1st 1911". Edward Wilson's report of the Cape Crozier Party refers to the journey made famous by Apsley Cherry-Garrard as The Worst Journey in the World and described by Captain Scott as one of the most gallant stories in Polar History."It makes a tale for our generation which I hope may not be lost in the telling".
Librería: Top of the World Books, LLC, Hinesburg, VT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: New. No Jacket. 2011 Australia, 1st thus, 8vo, pp.95, photo frontis, 8 color plates, 5 bw photos, 4 pencil sketches, 2 maps, uncut, dec eps, dec tri-fold cloth; issued w/o dj, cloth new. ----- A collection of two manuscripts regarding the Winter Journey undertaken by three of Capt. Scott s men (Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Wilson) to the Emperor Penguin rookery at Cape Crozier as part of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13). Cherry-Garrard described the journey in his classic book The Worst Journey in the World . Collected here, for the first time, are the manuscript accounts by the other two participants. Wilson s original 40-page manuscript is titled Sledge Journey to Cape Crozier from Cape Evans June 27th 1911 to Aug. 1st 1911 . Interspersed are pencil sketches and margin notes (possibly by Scott or Cherry-Garrard). This report was published in volume 2 of Scott s Last Expedition but with only one pencil sketch. Bowers 16-page manuscript is titled 'Winter Journey - Dr. Wilson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard & Lieutenant H. R. Bowers, Midwinter 1911'. Temperatures during this dark journey reached as low as minus 77ºF. These two historic manuscripts were sold at auction in 2009 for £135,000 and are an important companion to Cherry-Garrard s account. Book.
Publicado por ACE Pty Ltd 2011-2012, West Perth, 2011
Librería: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia
Original o primera edición
Boards. 1st edition thus. 1st edition thus, octavo, 3 volumes in slip-case. Vol.I: pp.96; Vol.II: pp.208; Vol.III: pp.181, col and b&w plates in each volume, pictorial folding boards, a fine set in cloth slip-case Transcribed from the original manuscripts held in the Kerry Stokes Collection. The first volume is Wilson and Bowers account of the 'Winter Journey' in the Antarctic from the original manuscript titled "Sledge Journey to Cape Crozier from Cape Evans June 27th 1911 to Aug. 1st 1911" being a report of the Cape Crozier Party, the journey made famous by Apsley Cherry-Garrard as 'The Worst Journey in the World' and described by Captain Scott as one of the most gallant stories in Polar History. The second volume is Levick's account as surgeon and zoologist on Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition illustrated with his own photographs and sketches. The final volume is another account of the Northern Party on the Terra Nova Expedition by Dickason.