Description: I have here for sale a book entitled THE GREAT WHITE SOUTH Or With Scott In The Antarctic by Herbert G. Ponting, and published by Duckworth & Co, London, 1923. Third (cheap) edition. Being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic. With 164 photographic illustrations by the author, 11 by Captain Scott and others, a map & 2 drawings. This book details the Scott's ill fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 – 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. Herbert G. Ponting (1870-1935) was a professional war and nature photographer before Scott selected him to be part of his last expedition. Ponting was the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition. Bound in blue cloth hardboards with red lettering and emblem to front board and spine. Bumped and chipped to head and tail of spine, and sunned to spine. The front board is detaching from the binding block. Small pen inscriptions to the front free endpapers otherwise pages clean. This book is in fair overall condition. 305 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 29.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2024-11-15T21:22:03.000Z
Shipping Cost: 40.17 GBP
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Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Hardback
Non-Fiction Subject: Travel Guides & Travel Stories
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Region: Antarctica
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: Herbert G. Ponting
Publisher: Duckworth
Year Printed: 1923
Original/Facsimile: Original
