Spencer's Last Journey: Being the journal of an expedition to Tierra del Fuego by the Last Sir Baldwin Spencer with a Memoir

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press) 1931. 8vo. Blue cloth boards. Gilt ship on front board and gilt title to spine. Price-clipped dustjacket (lightly chipped around edges; spine lightly toned). With frontisp. portrait two fold-out maps of Tierra del Fuego and Navarin Island 13 b/w plates and 12 b/w figures throughout. Endpapers toned and light foxing to top edge otherwise fine. NOTE: Baldwin Spencer (1860-1929) was the second director of the National Museum of Victoria a noted biologist photographer anthropologist and helped transform university standards of Australian science.