The Heart Of the Antarctic

William Heinemann, London, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition, 2 Volumes; Vol I, xlviii, 372 pages, 112 plates plus 111 diagrams in text; Vol II, xvi, 419 pages, 102 plates plus 38 diagrams in text; 1 folding page depicting 2 panoramas, 3 folding maps in rear pocket as called… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann. 1909. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Two volumes. Publisher's original blue cloth with titles and illustration in silver to the upper board and titles in gilt to the spine, in original dustwrappers. Top edges gilt, the others untrimmed. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece to each volume; 12 colour plates after paintings by George… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1909. Ernest Shackleton here tells the quite remarkable story of the British Antarctic expedition of 1907 to 1909. Shackleton and his men made it to within 97 miles of the South Pole, experiencing along the way every hardship possible, then returning to their wooden ship before the ice crushed it. "A more interesting book of polar… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann,, 1909. With the elusive dust jackets First trade edition, first impression, with the scarce dust jackets remarkably well-preserved. Shackleton's account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9 (Nimrod) was reviewed on publication by the Manchester Guardian as "the best book of polar travel which has ever been written". The sledge expedition to the south magnetic… Read more about this item

J.B. Lippincott Company. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0.