Swithinbank, C: FOOTHOLD ON ANTARCTICA: The First International Expedition (1949-52) Through the Eyes of Its Youngest Member. , The Book Guild: Sussex UK,1999.

1st Edition; SIGNED by author on title page, viii, 260pp, illustrated with 100 b/w photographs, maps. Black cloth covers with gilt titling to spine in unclipped dustjacket. In 1948 when Charles Swithinbank was still an undergraduate at Oxford, he applied to join the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. A year later, after training in Swedish Lappland, at 22 he was the youngest member as he set out to spend two and a half years in the splendid isolation of Antarctica. The author joined the expedition on graduating from Cambridge and has since visited the Antarctic over 20 times - a fascinating insight into that first expedition. Unread, Mint/Mint. (Book ref. 1612)  £30.00

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