SHACKLETON: His Antarctic Writings

British Broadcasting Corporation, 1983. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 1st Edition; 264pp, maps on end papers, 29 colour, 48 b/w photographs, 2 maps. Blue Cloth with silver titling on spine in pictorial dustjacket. Ernest Shackleton is still by many considered the greatest of all British polar explorers: a hero to generations of British men and women. Christopher Ralling here throws light on the character and actions of this remarkable man through a chronological selection from Shackleton's own writings, public and private. Much of the material comes from his own books, The Heart of the Antarctic and South, both long out of print, which recount the triumphs and disasters of the Nimrod and Endurance expeditions with the freshness and immediacy of the diaries on which they were largely based. Together with his poetry and letters - especially those to his wife, Emily - they build up to the lively self-portrait ofa many-sided, complex and fascinating man: at once leader and romantic dreamer; an inspirer of loyalty who could be implacable if he felt that loyalty was betrayed; a self-confessed misfit in the regulated world of domesticity and the English social hierarchy of his day. Fine/Very Good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; ISBN: 0563200847. ISBN/EAN: 9780563200840. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 402. . 9780563200840