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WHEELER**, SARA: : Terra Incognita: TRAVELS IN ANTARCTICA. [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,1996.

ISBN 0224041843.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten blue ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, generally clean,matt,Antarctic scenic colour photographic illustrated upper panel+spine/ backstrip of dw/dj,with black ink and silver gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Internally to dw/dj top edge+front inner flap,slight water-stain - not totally visible externally,apart from on the front inner flap; and boards beneath appearing unaffected. Top edges aged/tanned with a small elliptical stain towards headband area,fore-edges also aged/toned but generally cleaner - with some minimal,lighter mottling spots to the bottom edges; contents though,are bright,tight and clean with page-edge toning but text block clean and bright.No dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread - apart from my collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w photographic endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,ix-xipp +1-306pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements, an introduction,Pts 1-3 includes 17 chapters+an epilogue,an appendix and a select bibliography. Plus [unpaginated] half-title,author SIGNED title page,a dedication,contents list/table, epigraph,and Pts separator pages each with a b/w polar map (Antarctic Continent,Antarctic Peninsula and Ross Island and McMurdo Sound respectively). 'IT IS THE LAST GREAT JOURNEY LEFT TO MAN,' Shackleton said in 1914 when he was about to set out for Antarctica.Eighty years later,Sara Wheeler thought it might be a great journey for a woman too,and she spent seven months travelling across the ice sheet,through the Transarctic mountains and across the Antarctic Peninsula with scientists and mavericks from a variety of nations.In those rarefied moments she developed a relationship with the continent,and in her heart the journey goes on. The effect of Antarctica on the public imagination is one that has never before been fully explored. While attempting to unravel the myths spawned in the Heroic Age of exploration, Sara Wheeler discovered that today scientists and an army of support staff have established a new social order and come up with a hundred ways in which to avoid hating each other in confined quarters. She spent Christmas at the South Pole,pitched her tent on the sea ice for New Year,slept in Captain Scott's bunk in the Cape Evans hut, lay in the stone shelter at Cape Crozier sanctified by Apsley Cherry-Garrard in 'The Worst Journey in the World',took an ice breaker through the Southern Ocean and weathered the storms at an all-male British base in the Antarctic Peninsula. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Author's handwritten signature - without dedication.

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