South:The Story Of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917 Shackleton, Sir Ernest Arctic,Maritime & Naval History

Hardback in blue cloth boards, silver titles and illustration, bumps to the edges, small piece from ffep, Small tear on the back ot the pull-out map, internally repaired. otherwise in Very Good condition. No dustwrapper. First edition, second imprint, pp 376, b&w illustrations, colour photograph of the ship by F. Hurley, pull-out map of the voyage of the Endurance, the subsequent drift on the pack ice, and the various Relief attempt. The expedition's story begins on the eve of World War I, when the ship Endurance departed England with Shackleton and his team of six men. The plan was to travel 1,800 miles across the icy continent from the Atlantic side, while a second team aboard the Aurora, would reach Antarctica's Pacific side and lay out supply depots for the advancing team. As the Endurance approached the continent, however, it became hopelessly locked in an ice floe, beginning a series of harrowing travails. Today considered an adventure survival classic, South is the true story of a thrilling polar expedition.