1909 THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTICS 2 vols by Shackleton antique ILLUSTRATED 1st ED

🧿Topic Travel

🧿Binding Hardcover

🧿Subject Illustrated

🧿Language English

🧿Original/Facsimile Original

🧿Year Printed 1909

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The Heart of the Antarctic...by Shackleton (Ernest H.)London: Heinemann, 19092 volumes1st UK editionOver 200 monochrome plates and illustrations, 3 folding plans and 1 folding panoramas in rear pocket, original cloth, volume 1 rebacked in blue morocco with raised bands, volume 2 partly restored with raised bands (without reback leather), covers marked and some wear, one is more faded than another.Top edge gilt, others uncutSize 7 1/2 by 9 3/4"==============================================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" =================================================Please see my other auctions =Thank You