Published by (Cape Town: Struik, 1979) 0869771183, 1979
ISBN 10: 0869771183 ISBN 13: 9780869771181
Seller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Association Member: IOBA
4to; original dark green boards, lettered in gilt on spine and in white on upper cover; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 175 + (i), incl. index; map; liberally illustrated with full-colour photographs. Boards slightly shelf-rubbed; some fox spots to endpapers. Very good condition. "This is a story of a revolution in knowledge, and of the men who struggled against the winds, the monstrous seas and the searing ice to explore this last continent so that man might know what lies at the bottom of the world. It is also the story of the amazing life of the far south - a bird that circles the world for three years before making landfall; a seal that dies of rotten teeth; a penguin that lays its egg in the darkness of the polar night. Here, too, is the drama of two 'boom-and-bust' industries - the fur seals and the whales. Now a third industry is attracting the attention of the world. Krill. Already the sound of argument is heard . Has man learnt the lessons of the past? Or will the struggle for Antarctica make losers of us all?".