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“SOUTHERN LIGHTS” is the record of just over two years' work in the Falkland Islands' Dependency of South Shetland by an expedition which was probably the largest in the current style, wherein every member is a volunteer and often a material contributor to the expedition. The great value of the book lies in the amount of detail of method contained in it and in the demonstration of the manner in which experience, forethought and choice of the correct means can ensure the success of polar journeys. In addition, it indirectly emphasizes how such a mode of approach will avert ‘adventures’, so many of which, it may be suggested, are induced by those who experience them.
Southern Lights
The Official Account of the British Graham Land Expedition 1934–1037. By John Rymill, with two Chapters by A. Stephenson, and an Historical Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. Pp. xv + 296 + 80 plates. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1938.) 31s. 6d. net.
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H., J. Southern Lights. Nature 144, 54 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144054a0
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