The Great White South. Being an Account of Experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic
London, Duckworth & Co., [October] 1921 (first edition).
Large octavo, xxvi, 306 pages with a map plus 97 leaves of plates (containing 2 illustrations, a dairy entry and 174 plates, with all but a handful from photographs by the author).
Gilt-decorated cloth a little marked, lightly unevenly sunned and mottled on the sides, and sunned on the spine ('highly prone to fading', according to Rosove); endpapers offset; edges a little foxed, with minimal light foxing to the first and last few leaves; one plate (detached at some stage) very slightly chipped and creased around the edges; signature purporting to be by the author partially erased from the head of the dedication page; a very good copy.
Herbert Ponting (1870-1935) was the official photographer ('Camera Artist') on Scott's British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-13 (the 'Terra Nova' Expedition). He was the first professional photographer to accompany an Antarctic expedition, and this volume contains the images on which his reputation was made. Rosove 251.A1; Renard 1238; Spence 927.
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