Empire Antarctica
by Gavin, Francis
GAVIN FRANCIS has lectured at the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge, the Edinburgh Book Festival, and is a regular speaker at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. His first book was True North ("A seriously accomplished first book, by a versatile and interesting writer... it is set apart from run-of-the-mill by the elegance and grace of its prose, and by its abiding interest in landscapes of the mind." --Robert MacFarlane).
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London: Chatto & Windus, 2012. A very good clean tight copy in similar, unclipped dustwrapper of this hard-cover book. The author's account of his fourteen months stay as camp doctor at the Halley Antarctic Research Station. Signed and inscribed to a previous owner "For ....! I hope you make it down there! Gavin Francis. Kirkwall Aug 2013". … Read more about this item Item Price
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EMPIRE ANTARCTICA
by Francis, Gavin
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- 2012
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Vintage Chatto & Windus, 2012. Publishers Proof Copy. Paperback. As New/No Dust Jacket. Uncorrected proof copy; xi, 260 pages, illustrated, b/w photographs, 1 double map. Illustrated paperback. Appears unread. Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird… Read more about this item Item Price
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
by Francis, Gavin
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- 2012
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins [PB]
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- 2013
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Counterpoint, 2013. Paperback. New. Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and a very little human history, but also a rare opportunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in he Antarctic. Following penguins throughout the year -- from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter darkness… Read more about this item Item Price
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- 2013
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Empire Antarctica : Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
by Francis, Gavin
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- 2014
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EMPIRE ANTARCTICA
by FRANCIS,GAVIN
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- 2013
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- Paperback
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
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UK: Vintage Books, 2013. Soft cover. Very Good. 5 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches. p/b 258 pages, condition is very good. Empire Antarctica is the story of one man and his fascination with the world's loneliest continent, as well as the emperor penguins who weather the winter with him. Combining an evocative narrative with a sublime sensitivity to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins
by Francis, Gavin
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- fine
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- 2nd print
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- 2013-10-15
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Counterpoint, 2013-10-15. 2nd print. Hardcover. fine/fine. NOT an ex library book. Binding is very tight, book has not been fully opened. 260 pages including the notes. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped. Item Price
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