Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story of the Quest.

WILD, Frank.

Item Number: 142802

London: Cassell and Company, LTD, 1923.

First edition of Wild’s personal account of the final episode in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Royal octavo, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, gilt decorated vignette of the Quest to the front panel, pictorial endpapers by Garth Jones, illustrated with a colored frontispiece, numerous maps and over 100 illustrations from photographs. Provenance: from the Arctic and Antarctic collection of Gerald F. Fitzgerald with his library plate to the pastedown. In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities. Clip to the front free pictorial endaper.

Wild took over command of the fateful Shackleton–Rowett Expedition upon Shackleton's death and completed the journey to Elephant Island and along the Antarctic coast, combating unfavorable weather en route. The expedition returned to Plymouth harbor on September 16, 1922, one year after its initial departure. Shortly thereafter, Wild published this account, which reproduces some of the last photographs of Shackleton.