The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917.
London, Heinemann, 1919
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, 8vo, xxi, 376 pp., colour frontispiece, 5 maps (1 folding), 87 photographic plates (1 double-page), 2 sketch plans in text, usual toning to paper owing to poor paper stock, occasional foxing, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, neat repairs to spine extremities, a very good copy.
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