One Foot at the Pole

'Hul-lo!'
'Hullo. Do you want to go to the Pole?'
'Eh? What's that?'
'Do you want to go to the Pole?'
'Ah - aw - er - which Pole?'
'The South Pole.'
'Dickin?'
'Dinkum. And off tomorrow. Tomorrow, maybe three o'clock.'
'Can you hang on a bit? Thanks . . . '
'Hullo. Yes. Give her a lash. She's on.'

Thus began THE JIM HENDERSON ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Others may have been more precisely planned, more spectacularly carried out and more widely acclaimed. Jim Henderson can claim only one record - a war amputee, he was probably the first man to go to the South Pole wearing an artificial leg - and he doesn't want to make a song about that. But the publishers can claim that no previous expedition has produced so happy a result as ONE FOOT AT THE POLE. Some of its choicest pieces have already been heard over New Zealand radio stations, others have appeared in the N.Z. Listener. Here at last you can read the full, hilarious account. Readers will find it informative as well as entertaining.

Haven't you ever wondered, for example:
What do they DO all the time? And what GOOD is it?
What do they talk about?
Do they say 'Mush' to the huskies?
Exactly what does the South Pole look like?
Do they take tranquilisers? Or is it one big tranquiliser?
Any cats?
Do they wear pyjamas?

ONE FOOT AT THE POLE provides the answers.

- from the dust jacket.

One Foot at the Pole
Jim Henderson
Whitcombe and Tombs Limited
Christchurch
1962
First edition.
Hardback.
Red cloth boards with titles in white on spine.
170 pages.
Good second-hand condition.
Binding tight.
Previous owner's name inside.
Dust jacket: scuffed and worn on the spine and edges and with some discolouration, but otherwise intact.