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A victim of the aurora

by Thomas Keneally

During a 1910 Antarctic expedition, a group of explorers faces extreme conditions and a murder within their ranks. Decades later, the mission's official artist recounts the sobering truth of the ill-fated journey to the South Pole.

Accession 10367 ISBN 0002224933 Publisher Collins
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