RAIFE, Raymond. The Quest for the Arctic Poppy. A Tale of the Great Ice-Wastes of the Far North. London, the "Boy's Own Paper" Office, [1923].
8vo. Original pictorial cloth; pp. 311, six plates after Arthur Twidle; a little wear to extremities, spotting inside, still a better than usual - if at all - encountered copy, with ownership inscriptions to front fly-leaf.
First edition. This is the book that inspired Brian Birley Roberts who became a Polar ornithologist, researcher and the father of the Antarctic Treaty. 'While an undergraduate, he organized and led the Cambridge University Expedition to Vatnajokull in Iceland in 1932 and the Cambridge University Expedition to Scoresby Sund in East Greenland in 1933. Roberts joined the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-1937 (leader John Rymill), as an ornithologist, spending the austral winter of 1935 at the Argentine Islands and, after an operation to remove his appendix, the following winter on South Georgia where he studied Antarctic birds and elephant seals … In 1946, he joined the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, as a part-time research fellow' (https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk).
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