SCOTT, Robert Falcon - GWYNN, Stephen.

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Captain Scott. A biography of Scott taken to Antarctica by George Lowe, the official photographer on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, with his inscription on the front free endpaper: "This book was given to me to take to Antarctica for our expedition 1955-58 George Lowe". Scott was an inspirational figure in Lowe's life and featured prominently in his autobiography Because It Is There (1959). George Lowe (1924-2013) was a New Zealand representative on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1955-58. The expedition was the first to reach the south pole by land since Amundsen and Scott in 1912. The men conducted extensive surveying as they traversed the continent. Lowe had met his fellow expedition member, Hillary, on the 1953 Everest expedition, which was the first to summit the mountain. A year later, on a mountaineering trip in New Zealand, he met Fuchs, the leader of the expedition, who invited him to join the crew. This copy is a fourth edition.Loosely inserted is an invitation to the event at George's Book Shop in Bristol, where they collected this book for the expedition. The event was organized by polar enthusiast Dorothy Irving Bell, who, through "her unaided efforts cajoled books on all subjects from authors and publishers, packing and finally despatching to the expedition ship a library of some 400 items. Her reward was not just the joy of accomplishing a worthwhile task, but in the many and lasting friendships made with members of the expedition a

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