George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1951. Minor wear at dustjacket extremities, small tears and chips at top and bottom of dustjacket spine, mended internally with brown paper and covered with plastic to protect.

This is the story of the Australian Antarctic Expedition to Heard Island , a fragment of land, separated from Australia by 2,500 miles of the wildest and loneliest seas in the world, and so minute that it is not to be found on any but the largest maps. Arthur Scholes presents us with a vivid picture of this part of the world, and tells an intimate story of how so small and isolated a group of men made their lives there tolerable. All the many illustrations are from the author's own photographs.