SHACKLETON, SIR ERNEST - South the Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

New York, NY: MacMillan Company, 1920. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library. B&W Illustrations; This is the First American Edition (not the cheap edition). The book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear, along with spots of fraying. The spine of the book cover has several creases / wrinkles. The text pages are generally clean and bright. This is an ex Library copy from the Canterbury College Library (noted on a bookplate on the front pastedown page). The only markings are the bookplate, The remnants of a card pocket on the rear pastedown page, and an ink stamped "Discarded" on the title page. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name on the front endpaper. The front endpaper also includes a previous owner's inked gift notation dated 1921. The map at the rear of the book has a 3" tear, along with several wrinkles. All of the black and white photographs are present and in clean bright condition. "Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo-Irish family moved to Sydenham in suburban south London when he was ten. Shackleton's first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904, from which he was sent home early on health grounds, after he and his companions Scott and Edward Adrian Wilson set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S. During the Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude of 88°23' S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles or 180 kilometres) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Also, members of his team climbed Mount Erebus, the most active Antarctic volcano. On returning home, Shackleton was knighted for his achievements by King Edward VII. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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