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SHIRASE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION SUPPORTERS ASSOCIATION, editors. The Japanese South Polar Expedition 1910-12. Translated by Lara Dagnall and Hilary Shibata. Norwich: Bluntisham Books and Erskine Press, 2011.
8vo (241 x 159 mm). 8 full-page color plates including 2 full-page maps, numerous illustrations from photographs and drawings in the text. Original gilt-stamped red cloth.
FIRST EDITION TRANSLATED IN ENGLISH AND SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATORS. Nankyoku-ki (Ross 1.5.1) was first published in Japanese in 1913 and is the account of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition based on official journals and records of the expedition. Tireless efforts on the part of the translators have produced this exceptional first detailed account in English of the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. Many of the black-and-white photos used were not previously published in either Japanese or foreign publications. The long overlooked (outside of Japan) Japanese Antarctic Expedition traveled into Antarctic waters twice and made landfall in 1911. Their original mission was the conquest of the South Pole but it soon turned into one of scientific investigation and achievement with a farthest south of 80º5’ reached on 28 January 1912. Ross 1.5.4A.