Stock ID #220396 The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David. E. H SHACKLETON.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.
The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.

The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909 with an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, an Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David.

London. William Heinemann. 1909. First Edition. Stock ID #220396

2 volumes: xlviii + 372pp, [1]; xv + 419pp, [2] . Volume I: illustrated with 6 coloured plates and 125 plates including frontispiece portrait, Volume II: Errata, 6 coloured plates, 134 plates including frontispiece, 2 of which showing panoramic views on a folding sheet in rear-pocket, 38 illustrations in the text, and 3 coloured maps in rear pocket of binding: General Map showing the Explorations and Surveys of the Expedition 1907-09, Route and Surveys of the South Magnetic Polar Party 1908-09 from Triangulation and Traverses by Douglas Mawson, and Route and Surveys of the Southern Journey Party, 1908-9 From Traverses and Astronomical Observations by Eric Marshall. All coloured plates, sketches and diagrams are after paintings by George Marston with captioned tissue guards, top edge gilt. Titles in reddish brown and black. Both volumes have been expertly re-backed with the original spines laid down and new endpapers, first and last blanks browned, light browning half titles and recto frontispieces. Original boards have some discolouration, but each volume is firm, clean and bright.

An unforgettable chronicle of Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod expedition, written by his own hand. This journey was the most scientifically valuable feat of polar exploration to date. For his duties as commander and for making the farthest attempt to reach the geographic South Pole, Ernest Shackleton received a knighthood. We experience how an expedition of this magnitude was planned at the turn of the 20th century before there were icebreakers, snowmobiles, satellites, GPS and all the other technologies we now take for granted. The climbing of Mount Erebus and the account by Professor David and his team of finding the magnetic South Pole are described in detail as is Shackleton's description of the cold, the hunger, the blizzards and other dangers but also the thrills, the beauty, the camaraderie and the scientific achievements.

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