This just happened...

I just walked into a very unassuming church basement bookstore in Crouch End to find these 3 glorious editions of Ponting's Scott's Last Voyage, Evans' South with Scott, and Scott's journals in a wonderfully bound edition full of photographs and maps.

I really recommend checking out the bookstore under St Mary's Parish Church inbetween Crouch End and Muswell Hill. They had a flood recently and are looking for donations to replace ruined stock.

I think its fair to say my Scott Bookshelf is pretty glad these beauties were saved from said flood.

(they also had a bunch of Buffy books and I got an amazing book about Witchcraft and Demonology. What I thought was going to be an amazing goth bookhaul turned into an amazing Polar bookhaul. Day of book win!)

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  1. I am very envious of this shelf - also, that purple narwhal is too awesome.

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  2. If you don't have it, I'll have to send you that Nat Geo from last year with the Scott feature.

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  3. "South with Scott" Drinking Game:

    - Drink once for any mention of "splendid adventure", "glorious heroism", or any other phrase redolent of a Boys' Own Annual
    - Twice for any claim that he and Scott got on REALLY well
    - When he claims he got scurvy from too much sledging, raise your glass and down it in one!!

    (Splendid polar haul, much impressed!)

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