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Arctic Journeys.

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

Arctic Journeys.

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

Stock Code 114558

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937

A finely bound, signed copy of Edward Shackleton's Arctic Journeys. The youngest son of Ernest Shackleton, he 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, 372 pp., Signed by Shackleton on first blank, frontispiece, 5 maps (1 large folding), numerous photographic illustrations (1 large folding panorama plate), tailpieces after an Eskimo artist), black morocco gilt for Aspreys, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.

Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

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Arctic Journeys.

SHACKLETON, Edward.

Stock code: 114558

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