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The Year of the Quiet Sun: One Year at Scott Base, Antarctica: A Personal Impression.
by Hayter, Adrian
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0340044802
- ISBN 13
- 9780340044803
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos, endpaper maps, minimal foxing first two pages, coloured top edge lightly faded, edge lightly foxed, minor edgewear jacket. 191 pp. His personal account of the year he spent at Scott Base, Antarctica. The base is New Zealand's contribution to Antarctic exploration.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25286
- Title
- The Year of the Quiet Sun: One Year at Scott Base, Antarctica: A Personal Impression.
- Author
- Hayter, Adrian
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0340044802
- ISBN 13
- 9780340044803
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- biography, travel, exploration, explorers, maritime, pacific, antarctica, antarctic, new zealand
- Bookseller catalogs
- PACIFIC & NEW ZEALAND;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.
About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...