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    Reference 1072 (1614)
    Category Antarctic;
    Author Shackleton, Ernest H
    Title THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC.
    Publishing Information London: William Heinemann,1909.
    Description 1st Edition, 2 Volumes; Vol I, xlviii, 372 pages, 112 plates plus 111 diagrams in text; Vol II, xvi, 419 pages, 102 plates plus 38 diagrams in text; 1 folding page depicting 2 panoramas, 3 folding maps in rear pocket. Original covers. Spines softening, covers slightly faded, bumped and marked. Spine on volume 1 slightly split. End papers age toned, contents clean. Odd crack to text block but still in overall tight, clean condition. A very nice set. Shackleton first gained fame as a member of Scott's 1901-2 expedition, and in August 1907 he left London as commander of his own expedition, popularly known as the "Nimrod" Expedition and renowned "for having reached within 97 miles of the South Pole (almost four years before Amundsen and Scott achieved the Pole itself) This expedition established Shackleton as a bona-fide English hero," having discovered the Polar Plateau and accomplishing the first attainment of the Magnetic South Pole, as well as the first ascent of Mt. Erebus fully outdistancing his predecessors to a degree unequalled in the history of polar exploration. ( Books on Ice 7.4)
    Price £350.00
    Keywords Antarctic, expedition, Ross sea, Scott, polar, Nimrod, Swithinbank S1-Ant
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