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SHACKLETON’S GREAT FEAT OF SURVIVAL 45. SHACKLETON, Ernest H. SOUTH The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914 - 1917 Heinemann, 1919. First edition. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth with titles and vi- gnette of Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, on the upper cover in silver. Colour frontispiece after a photograph by Frank Hurley, with 79 further black and white photographs by Hurley all full page, and eight drawings, on 44 plates. Fold out map to rear. A near fine copy, with the inevitable browning to the page edges, but externally very bright and crisp. [45370] £4,500 Shackleton’s account of the Endurance expedition is one of the finest in the Antarctic canon and a classic of all literature on exploration. The tale of the loss of the Endurance to the Weddell Sea, the perilous journey to Elephant Island, the unlikely voyage of the James Caird to South Georgia and the rescue mission that ensured every member of the crew survived has become legend due to Shackleton’s account. 46. PEARY, Robert E. NORTHWARD OVER THE GREAT ICE A Narrative Of Life And Work Along The Shores And Upon The Interior Ice-Cap Of Northern Greenland In The Years 1886 and 1891-1897 Methuen, 1898. First UK edition. Two volumes. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Upper cover lettered in gilt, with silver vignette. Top edge gilt, other uncut. Over eight hundred illustrations across the two volumes. Including portrait frontispieces to each volume, numerous charts, maps, and photographic reproductions, one folding panorama, and one folding map. A good set, boards clean and bright, missing front endpapers in both volumes. [46195] £250
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