SHACKLETON, Ernest H.
The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.
First Edition of Shackleton’s Classic Account The Heart of the Antarctic
Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1909.
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First editions. Large octavos, 2 volumes, original blue cloth. Contains three partly colored folding maps & 2 panoramas on 1 folding sheet in rear pocket, 2 photogravure frontispieces and 12 color plates. In very good condition with some shelf wear to the extremities.
Ernest Shackleton here tells the quite remarkable story of the British Antarctic expedition of 1907 to 1909. Shackleton and his men made it to within 97 miles of the South Pole, experiencing along the way every hardship possible, then returning to their wooden ship before the ice crushed it. "A more interesting book of polar exploration . . . has yet to be written" (New York Times Book Review).
The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.
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