The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909.

SHACKLETON, Ernest H.

Item Number: 30098

London: William Heinemann, 1909.

First editions. Large octavos, 2 volumes, original blue cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jackets with some rubbing and wear. Photogravure frontispiece to each volume, 12 captioned tissue-guarded coloured, and 255 black and white other plates in all, 3 maps, panorama in end-pocket of volume II, and numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout. Rare in the original dust jackets.

Ernest Shackleton here tells the quite remarkable story of the British Antarctic expedition of 1907 to 1909. Shackleton and his men made it to within 97 miles of the South Pole, experiencing along the way every hardship possible, then returning to their wooden ship before the ice crushed it. "A more interesting book of polar exploration . . . has yet to be written" (New York Times Book Review).