My review of the Global Dickens exhibition at the
Charles Dickens Museum in London is up now at the
Fine Books site. Here's a snippet:
Star of the show is a 1910 edition of David Copperfield which
was part of the impressively stocked library taken by Captain Robert
Falcon Scott and his men on the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica in
1912. Several of the men, trapped in an ice cave for more than half a
year, read a chapter of it aloud each night for two months. Among them
was geologist Raymond Priestley who said that when they had finished the
book, they were “very sorry to part with him.” Considering all that
it’s been through, and some blubber-stains apart, this small volume is
in remarkably decent condition.
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