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Evans (Admiral Sir E.R.G.R.) Library of Classics. South with Scott, London and Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, [1924], half-tone illustrations, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to title 'To Alan D. Smith, with best wishes from E.R.G.R. Evans, 1943', together with: Hussey (L.D.A.) South with Shackleton, 1st edition, London: Sampson Low, 1949, illustrations, press cutting to rear endpaper, original cloth, dust jacket, vertically split in two, lacking most of spine, 8vo, inscribed by the author, and signed again with other signatures on blank notepaper tipped-in at title, plus E.W. Kevin Walton's Two Years in the Antarctic, 2nd impression, 1955, inscribed by the author, and a Christmas card from Dr & Mrs Hussey containing 13 loosely-inserted photographs from the 1958 Trans-Antarctic Expedition (which achieved the first overland crossing of Antarctica) (Qty: 4) Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880-1957) captained the Terra Nova and was second-in-command of Scott's South Pole Expedition of 1910-13. He was part of the supporting group (along with William Lashly and Thomas Crean) forced to turn back 160 miles from the Pole, leaving Scott and his party to continue his ill-fated attempt on the Pole. Leonard Hussey (1891-1964) was the meteorologist on Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17 and one of the 22 men left on Elephant Island whilst Shackleton embarked on his epic rescue mission to South Georgia. E.W. Kevin Walton (1918-2009) was a member of the British Antarctic Survey, and in 1946 famously rescued Major John Tonkin who had fallen into a crevasse, winning the Albert Medal. .