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SHIRASE, Nobu (1861-1946). Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki [in English: Account of My Expedition to the South Pole]. Tokyo : Kokoku Seinen Kyoiku Kyokai, November 1941.
8vo (184 x 127 mm). Folding map printed in blue, 20 photographic illustrations, including one double-page and several full-page. Original stiff pictorial wrappers printed in colors with an image of the “Kainan Maru” sailing toward the South Pole (spine gently sunned).
SECOND EDITION, with a slightly different title, of Shirase’s first person narrative Nankyoku Tanken originally published in 1913 (Ross 1.4.1). A well-preserved copy of Shirase’s very scarce pre-WWII personal account of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. Taurus mentions the wartime reprint of 1942 and notes that this earlier edition listed here is “ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES IN ANTARCTIC LITERATURE”. Ross 1.4.2 (“Very Scarce”); Taurus 75 (1942 edition).