(Shackleton, Ernest Henry) | Three works relating to the Quest

(Shackleton, Ernest Henry)

Three works relating to the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, or the Quest Expedition (1921-1922)

Lot comprises: Report on the Geological Collections Made During the Voyage of the “Quest.” London: The British Museum, 1930. Maroon cloth gilt — Wild, Frank. Shackleton’s Last Voyage. London: Cassel and Company, Ltd., 1923. Pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket; chips and tears — Southward on the Quest. Shackleton's Last Antarctic Expedition. Scala Souvenir, n.d. [c. 1922]. 8 photogravure plates. Original wrappers; a little creased and browned

The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, or the Quest Expedition, is seen as the last of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The Quest was a converted Norwegian sealing boat. It soon proved inadequate for the demanding Antarctic seas; she leaked, she was slow, and she guzzled fuel. Indeed, the trip was to prove resoundingly ill-omened — Shackleton had a sudden heart attack aboard the ship before the expedition work had begun. Frank Wild took over command and Shackleton was buried on South Georgia, the island across which he had heroically trekked to rescue his crew during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917.

Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.