Walton, K & Atkinson, R: OF DOGS AND MEN. Fifty years in the Antarctic. The Illustrated Story of the Dogs of the British Antarctic Survey 1944-1994. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. , Worcestershire: Images Publishing,1996.

1st Edition; Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales,190pp, beautifully illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and diagrams throughout. Original blue cloth gilt with silver titling to spine in pictorial price clipped dustjacket. The removal of dogs from the Antarctic followed an amendment to the Antarctic Treaty in 1991. Environmentalists concerned that the distemper-like virus which had affected the seal population in the North Sea may be linked to dogs, pressed for this change. (Subsequently the Antarctic dogs were proven to be distemper free). Before their removal in 1994, the last two huskie teams went on a final field trip led by John Sweeny and John Killingbeck. Faded strip on dustjacket otherwise Very Good/Very Good. (Book ref. 30)  £25.00

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