The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

First Edition of Shackleton’s Classic Account The Heart of the Antarctic in the Rare Original Dust Jacket

The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

SHACKLETON, Ernest H.

Item Number: 7290

Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1909.

First editions of Shackleton’s fascinating account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909. Large octavos, 2 volumes, original blue cloth, contains three partly colored folding maps & 2 panoramas on 1 folding sheet in rear pocket, 2 photogravure frontispieces and 12 color plates.. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets with light wear. Examples of Heart of the Antarctic in jacket are rare, with only one example of the American edition dust jackets appearing at auction in the last 50 years.

Ernest Shackleton here tells the quite remarkable story of the British Antarctic expedition of 1907 to 1909. Shackleton and his men made it to within 97 miles of the South Pole, experiencing along the way every hardship possible, then returning to their wooden ship before the ice crushed it. "A more interesting book of polar exploration . . . has yet to be written" (New York Times Book Review).

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