Buy this book on-line KENEALLY**, THOMAS: : A Victim of the AuroraLONDON.COLLINS,1977. ISBN 0002224933.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner
inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial (taken from 'Auroral Corona with
Two Figures',by Edward Wilson,courtesy of the Scott Polar Research Institute) illustrated upper wrap,literary reviews to
rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - minimal,sporadic spotting/foxing
to dw/dj's inner flaps.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled;fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and pristine - no discolouration,no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-222pp [paginated] including 7 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+
title pages,and 2pp blanks to rear.
Captain Stewart selected the members of his great expedition with exemplary care,
each man hand-picked for the qualities that would enable him to withstand the rigours and awful isolation of the Antarctic winter.He felt certain that he had gathered the cream of British manhood.
But in an era when shame was a reality,
each man carried his shame encapsulated within him.In the emotional pressure cooker of the expedition headquarters and vigorously stirred by that arch mischief- maker Victor Henneker,the elements of disunion became ever more apparent,minor irritants swelled to intolerable proportions.For the young expeditionary artist,Anthony Piers,the century began to go wrong when Henneker was unaccountably strangled on the day after mid-winter.To Piers the story of the murder is,in miniature,the pattern of our perilous century.
In a sense,this is Thomas Keneally's first detective story,yet those who wish to find only the elements of a traditional
whodunit should look elsewhere.This is an astonishingly vivid and convincing evocation of a polar expedition before the
First World War; to read it is to enter that harsh,monastic world,to smell 'the cocoa and the acetylene lamps,the drying thermal underwear before the stove and the
acid smell of Siberian pony dung . . . ' Still more,it is a compelling study of human nature under stress,of a small group
of brave men facing not only the terrors of nature but the still more insidious threat from their own minds.
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