Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1386
  • 1386

Worsley, Frank Arthur

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Description

  • Endurance. An Epic of Polar Adventure. London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1931
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (224 x 140mm.), xii, 316pp., map [as front free endpaper], 34 photo illustrations on 17 leaves [recto and verso], original light blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, slipcase, spine slightly marked, minor repairs to dust-jacket

Literature

Rosove 361.A1 ("dust-wrapper very scarce"); Spence 1277; Taurus 107 (American edition)

Catalogue Note

"[Worsley] skippered the Endurance, miraculously navigated the James Caird to South Georgia by virtual dead reckoning with only occasional help from the sextant, crossed the South Georgia interior with Shackleton and Tom Crean, accompanied Shackleton on the several Elephant Island rescue attempts, and went with Shackleton as far as New Zealand to assist in the recovery of the Ross Sea shore party" (Rosove).