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Shackleton, Ernest H. SOUTH. THE STORY OF SHACKL

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Shackleton, Ernest H.  SOUTH. THE STORY OF SHACKL
Shackleton, Ernest H. SOUTH. THE STORY OF SHACKLETON'S LAST EXPEDITION 1914-1917. London: Heinemann 1919 First edition, first printing xxi,376pp. Color frontis, many photo illus, folding map. Original dark blue cloth, lettered in silver on front & spine, & with silver vignette of "Endurance" on front. An exceptionally bright, clean copy, the spine unfaded, and with only very minor toning of the text as is so common with this first edition.

Rosove 308.A1; Spence 1107. First edition of Shackleton's own narrative of the "Endurance" expedition, on which he was to attempt the crossing of the Antarctic continent. Thwarted by ice in the Weddell Sea, the ship crushed, the survival of the entire crew is one of the amazing stories of the "Heroic age".