A Treatise On The Southern Continent
IN RARE ORIGINAL DUSTWRAPPER
Antarctica A Treatise On The Southern Continent
The Richards Press, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's bright blue cloth, lettered gilt, in the rare picotrial dustwrapper. Photographic frontispiece and fifteen further photographic leaves, ten charts and diagrams, four folding maps in the rear pocket. A near fine copy in a very good example of the dustwrapper which, despite some light chipping, staining and a couple of reinforced closed tears, remains mainly complete and attractive.
An excellent study of Antarctic exploration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction Hayes describes the purpose of this book as "to treat Antarctica as fully as possible; to set forth what is known about it, to delimit what is unknown, and to consider how its undiscovered lands may become known. It is intended to treat the subject somewhat scientifically, without undue technicality, the standpoint being that of an ordinary educated reader rather than that of a specialist."
The initial chapters consider the landscape, geology, glaciology and meteorology. Hayes then turns his attention to the history of exploration of the region from the "Discovery" expedition, Shackleton's first expedition, Amundsen, Scott's last journey, Mawson's expedition, and Shackleton's second voyage. Hayes concludes by considering what future expeditions and studies could be made.
"A good survey of Antarctic exploration and science, and the first substantial one since Mill's The Siege Of The South Pole published in 1905... A handsome book" (Rosove).
Examples in the original dustwrapper are rare.
Rosove 164.
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