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Shackleton, Ernest Henry | "The Heart of the Antarctic," first edition

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Shackleton, Ernest Henry

The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909


2 volumes, 8vo (245 x 175mm). 3 folding maps, 1 panorama in the rear cover pocket of volume 2, 289 illustrations, 264 photographic, 15 reproductions of sketches, 12 colored, on 214 plates; light spotting. Pictorial blue cloth, top edge gilt; lightly bumped at head and foot of spine. Dust-jacket; restoration, mainly to spines.


First edition.


The British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909, known as the Nimrod Expedition, was the first of three expeditions that Ernest Shackleton would lead to the Antarctic.


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