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First edition of Edward Shackleton's Arctic Journeys, in the scarce dust-jacket.
First edition of Edward Shackleton's Arctic Journeys, in the scarce dust-jacket.
First edition of Edward Shackleton's Arctic Journeys, in the scarce dust-jacket.
First edition of Edward Shackleton's Arctic Journeys, in the scarce dust-jacket.

SHACKLETON, Edward.

Arctic Journeys. The story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5.

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.

$408.00
$408.00

Arctic Journeys.

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In the scarce dust-jacket.

The youngest son of Ernest Shackleton, Edward Shackleton organised the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition in 1934 and chose Gordon Noel Humphreys to lead it. Shackleton accompanied the party as assistant surveyor to Humphreys. The expedition was eventually responsible for naming Mount Oxford (after the University of Oxford) and the British Empire Range.

First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); frontispiece, 5 maps (1 large folding), numerous photographic illustrations (1 large folding panorama plate), with tailpieces after an Eskimo artist; publisher's original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, a little sunning to edges, original dust-jacket, frayed with of tape repair to spine, loss to upper part of lower panel, a very good copy in a good dust-jacket: 372 pp.

Stock code 121768

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First edition of Edward Shackleton's Arctic Journeys, in the scarce dust-jacket.

Arctic Journeys.

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