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MARC recordIn the shadow of Shackleton's cross / Beverley McLeod.
| Title: | In the shadow of Shackleton's cross / Beverley McLeod. |
| Author(s): | McLeod, Beverley. |
| Date: | 2014. |
| Publisher: | London: Orion |
| Abstract: | Memoir of period of author's life from age six to ten (1957-61) when she lived at King Edward's Point, South Georgia, where her father was radio operator for Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. Describes employees and nature of work at nearest settlement, Grytviken, then largest whaling station in world. Includes subsequent two years in Stanley, Falkland Islands, before departure to England. |
| Keywords: | 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry. 711.424 -- Historic sites: Grytviken. 92 -- Biographies: McLeod, Beverley. 93 -- History. 93"195" -- 1950-1959. 93"196" -- 1960-1969. 392.3 -- Family life. 3-053.2 -- Children and infants. X -- Biographies and obituaries. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*72) -- Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Dependencies, and British Antarctic Territory. (*721) -- Falkland Islands. (*723) -- South Georgia and Shag Rocks. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*723)[2014] |
| ISBN: | 9781849860314 |
| SPRI record no.: | 211833 |
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