Antarctic Housewife.
BROWN Nan (1971.)
£250.00 [First Edition]
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KENN BACK'S COPY
First edition. Colour frontispiece. 8vo. Publisher's cloth with the pictorial dustjacket; a few nicks and small tears to extremities, mended with tape. Kenn Back's attractive bookplate to ffep. [iv], 190pp. London, Hutchinson,
Nan Brown spent two and a half years living on South Georgia in the Falkland Islands, accompanying her husband, who was running the island's radio station. Women's perspectives on the Antarctic regions are uncommon, indeed it wasn't until 1935 that Caroline Mikkelsen was the first recorded woman to set foot on the mainland. Brown's book contains a particularly fine account of the flora and fauna of the island. This copy from the library of Kenn Back, meteorologist with the British Antarctic Survey 1963-2002.
Stock Code: 245102
