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SHACKLETON, ERNEST HENRY, Sir. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917. 1919
SHACKLETON, ERNEST HENRY, Sir. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917. Plates reproducing photographs by Frank Hurley, including double-page panorama of South George and color frontispiece of the Endurance; folding map. Half-title. Errata slip tipped in. Large 8vo, original silver-stamped pictorial dark blue cloth, few letters on spine rubbed, top of spine bumped, thin faint vertical streak across rear cover; text toned and brittle as usual. London, 1919
- Notes: first edition. Although his 1914-17 Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard the Endurance was aborted after the ship sank in the icebound Weddell Sea, Shackleton''s daring voyage in a small boat all the way to South Georgia and the ultimate rescue of his men cemented his status as a polar icon. Books on Ice 7.8; Spence 1107.
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