In the Great White Land (A Tale of the Antarctic Ocean) – Gordan Stables

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In the Great White Land (A Tale of the Antarctic Ocean) – Gordan Stables

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Adventure book in the Antarctic for the young and young at heart.

Published by Blackie London but really Glasgow in the early 1930’s.

Octavo, 288 pages thick spongy paper and despite the spongy quite clean with some marks to the extreme per edge. Coloured frontispiece and three full page illustrations. Prize label on front end papers. Rare in the illustrated dust jacket.

Three stories and despite the subtitle starts with ... “Far Away in the Frozen North” an Arctic adventure on the good barque Walrus and the oft frozen Captain Mayne Brace (great pun). Story two “Under the Southern Cross” requires no clue as to the general location with many icy encounters. Finally “On the Great Antarctic Continent” and the beauty and marvel of the Ice-Cave. The sledging journey across the tableland and the dash for the pole takes its lead from the great Heroic Era accounts.

Young at heart adventure with a nod to Polar reality.

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