Title: Bird life at the pole
Description: Robin is a writer for the Times who is sent to explore the South Pole and to report daily to the editor, Mr. Herbst. Herbst sends Robin off with all the wrong equipment for a “scientific” exploration and the wrong colleagues and crew. A humorous, thinly disguised satire about William Randolph Hearst, Commander Richard Byrd and Bryd's ship "Eleanor Bolling".
Subjects: Birds, Fiction