• Signed presentation copy of South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great, if not greatest, accounts of heroics and human endurance of an Antarctic expedition.
  • Signed presentation copy of South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great, if not greatest, accounts of heroics and human endurance of an Antarctic expedition.
  • Signed presentation copy of South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great, if not greatest, accounts of heroics and human endurance of an Antarctic expedition.
  • Signed presentation copy of South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great, if not greatest, accounts of heroics and human endurance of an Antarctic expedition.
  • Signed presentation copy of South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, one of the great, if not greatest, accounts of heroics and human endurance of an Antarctic expedition.
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SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.

South.

South.

The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917.

Stock Code 122619

London, Heinemann, 1919.

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signed presentation copy

Inscribed ' To [-removed-] / With grateful remembrances / of many kindnesses, from / Ernest Shackleton. / Jan 1st 1920'. With the pamphlet 'A Centenary Service of Thanksgiving for the Courage and Endurance of Sir Ernest Shackleton cvo and his Men, Friday 20th May 2016, Noon' loosely inserted.

Probably the most evocative narrative of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, telling of the survival of Shackleton and his crew under the most extreme circumstances.

First edition, second impression; tall 8vo (25.5 x 16.5 cm); signed inscription to front free endpaper, colour frontispiece, 5 maps (1 folding), 87 photographic plates (1 double-page), 2 sketch plans in text, slight toning to edges; publisher's original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, a little rubbed, a very good copy; xxi, 376 pp.

Books on Ice, 7.8; Conrad p224; Rosove 308.A2; Taurus 105.

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