ALONE

New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1959. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 7 x 4.2 in., pp. 192. Very light rubbing to corners and edges. Age-toning to pages. (Ace Star K102T). "You're lost now, I told myself. I was appalled. I realized that I should have to lengthen my radius from the beacon; and in lengthening it I might never be able to find the way back to the one certainty. However, there was no alternative unless I preferred to freeze to death, and I could do that just as thoroughly 1,000 yards from the hut as 500. So now I decided to take 30 steps more in the same direction, after scraping a little heap of snow together to mark the 100-pace point. On the 29th step, I picked up the first of the bamboo sticks, not more than 30 feet away. No shipwrecked mariner, sighting a distant sail, could have been more overjoyed..." (from the book).