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SHACKLETON, Ernest H. (1874-1922). The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-1909. With an introduction by Hugh Robert. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1909.
2 volumes in 4, tall 8vo. Photogravure frontispieces, numerous plates including 12 in color, 3 folding maps and one folding panorama in rear pocket of second volume. Contemporary half crushed morocco, spines with 6 compartments and flat raised bands gilt, gilt-lettering in 2, top edges gilt (spines gently sunned, some rubbing near heads with some chipping).
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Shackleton recounts his 1907-09 expedition which came within 100 miles of the South Pole but was the first to reach the Magnetic South Pole and the first to ascend the active volcano Mt. Erebus. Renard 1148’ Rosove 305.C1b.