Polar Crean: Tom Crean – Antarctic Explorer
Author(s):
Barry, Dennis, Henry Leach, Bernard Carter, & S. Kemp
Copyright: 023, UK
Specifications: 1st, 4to, pp.67, map frontis, 52 bw photos, 1 bw illus, 2 bw maps, pictorial cloth
Condition: dj & cloth new
This is a collection of writings related to Tom Crean including – Barry’s (née Tadhg Gahan)‘Polar Crean’ (1952), Leach’s ‘The Explorations of the South Pole’ (1901), Carter’s ‘Sport in the Antarctic’ (1904), and Kemp’s ‘Animal Life in the Antarctic’ (1937). Although not all specifically related to Crean, this is an interesting compilation of uncommon material.