London & Sydney. Collins. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1977. 21.5cm, first edition, 222p., blue cloth, near fine in near fine jacket (hds) This is the Australian novelist's first mystery story set in a polar expedition before the First World War.

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The thrilling story of an ill-fated expedition to the South Pole by the bestselling and award-winning author of Schindler's List. In the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of English gentleman- adventurers led by Sir Eugene Stewart launched an expedition to reach the South Pole. More than sixty years later, Anthony Piers, the official artist of the New British South Polar Expedition, finally unveils the sobering conditions of their perilous journey: raging wind, bitter cold, fierce hunger, absolute darkness-and murder. The first two decades of the twentieth century were known as the "heroic era" of Antarctic exploration. In 1911, Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. Weeks later, doomed British explorer Robert Falcon Scott arrived-and then perished in a blizzard. And in 1914, Ernest Shackleton embarked on his infamous voyage to Antarctica. Set during this epic period of adventure and discovery, Victim of the Aurora re-creates a thrilling time in an unforgiving place and is a brilliantly plotted tale of psychological suspense.

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Bookseller: Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC) (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6210
Title: A Victim of the Aurora
Author: KENEALLY, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: F
ISBN 10: 0151936315
ISBN 13: 9780151936311
Publisher: London & Sydney. Collins
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: 1978
Keywords: LITERATURE MODERN FIRST EDITION AUSTRALIAN IRISH KENEALLY NOVEL MYSTERY POLAR ANTARCTIC

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