Ommanney, F.D: SOUTH LATITUDE. , London: Longmans,Green & Co.,1938.

1st Edition, new impression March 1938; SIGNED by Author. "With best wishes F D Ommanney 16.XI.38 on title page; x, 308pp,map endpapers, frontispiece of the Royal Research Ship Discovery II, and sixteen plates, no dustjacket. Green Cloth with gilt title on spine. The author was a lecturer in Zoology & made this voyage w/ the Discovery II expedition. ''It was written in odd half-hours in the routine of a ship's work, frequently in heavy seas - with the author's typewriter lashed to the cabin table. It has the sting of the salt-spray in its pages.a purely personal account of life in the Antarctic, among the whalers in South Georgia, and on board the Royal Research Ship Discovery II. We must go back to Melville's Moby Dick for anything to equal the whaling chapters.'' Previous owners names on eps, covers slightly bumped and grubby, spine slightly faded, some light foxing to prelims, endleaves but overall Good/Good. (Book ref. 1694)  £25.00

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