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Record #210766:
The greatest treasure in the library: Ernest Shackleton and the Cambridge University Press edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica / Meredith Hooper.
Title: | The greatest treasure in the library: Ernest Shackleton and the Cambridge University Press edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica / Meredith Hooper. |
Author(s): | Hooper, Meredith. |
Date: | 2014. |
Publisher: | [Cambridge]: [Cambridge University Press] |
Abstract: | Account of Shackleton's 1914-17 Endurance Antarctic expedition, with particular reference to role of 1911 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica as reading matter, and later as source of paper for other purposes. Many volumes remained with expedition throughout voyage, camps on ice, and months on Elephant Island awaiting rescue. |
Keywords: | 91(08) -- Expeditions: 1914-17 Shackleton. 03 -- Reference works. 379.8 -- Leisure. 655 -- Printing, publishing and book trade. 061.4 -- Exhibitions: 2014-15 The Greatest Treasure in the Library. 069 -- Museums and art galleries: Great Britain. Cambridge University Press Museum. V -- History. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-PAM: 91(08) : (*7)[1914-17 Shackleton][H] |
SPRI record no.: | 210766 |
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