Category: Polar

The remarkable story of the Ross Sea party who lost their ship, the Aurora. Led by Mackintosh they were to lay dumps to the pole to support Shackleton's ill fated antarctic crossing attempt.
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Shackleton's Forgotten Men

By: Bickel Lennard

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Pimlico : 2001

Seller ID: 73421

ISBN-13: 9780712668071

Binding: paperback

Condition: 241pp, paperback, VG+.

The remarkable story of the Ross Sea Party who lost their ship, the Aurora. Led by Mackintosh they were to lay dumps to the pole to support Shackleton's ill fated antarctic crossing attempt.
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South. Man and Nature in Antarctica. A New Zealand view.

By: Billing Graham & Mannering Guy

Price: £7.00

Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed : 1964

Seller ID: 72962

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 207pp, original grey cloth, withdrawn stamp on half title, small worn patch on front endpaper where it has been stuck to the half title page, Good+, no dustwrapper.

The story of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme.
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The Eskimo Book of Knowledge. Rendered Into The Labrador Dialect by The Reverend W.W. Perrett. Aglait Ilisimatiksat Inungnut Ilingnajut

By: Binney George, Perrett Rev W.W., Hutton Dr S.K.

Price: £195.00

Publisher: Hudson's Bay Company : 1931

Seller ID: 72887

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 237pp, original pictorial boards, map endpapers, private blindstamp, small incription, relevant newspaper article tipped to front endpaper, VG+.

Text in Labrador dialect and English.
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The Flora of Greenland

By: Bocher Tyge W., Holmen Kjeld, and Jakobsen Knud

Price: £85.00

Publisher: P. Haase & Sons, Copenhagen : 1968

Seller ID: 72414

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 312pp, folding map, original blue cloth with gilt, publisher's ink stamp on front endpaper, near Fine in near Fine dw. A lovely copy of a scarce title.

An excellent guide translated from the Danish Second Edition.
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Roald Amundsen

By: Bomann-Larsen Tom

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Sutton Publishing : 2006

Seller ID: 73288

ISBN-13: 9780750943437

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 384pp, private bookplate, Fine in Fine dw

A scholarly biography of the great man.
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Roald Amundsen

By: Bomann-Larsen Tor

Price: £34.00

Publisher: Sutton Publishing : 2006

Seller ID: 51746

ISBN-13: 9780750943437

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xvi, 384pp, Fine in VG+ dw

A scholarly biography of the great man.
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Sea, Ice And Rock. Sailing and climbing above the Arctic Circle

By: Bonington Chris & Knox-Johnson Robin

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton : 1992

Seller ID: 74698

ISBN-13: 9780340576199

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 143pp, Fine in Fine dw

An expert climber and sailor team up to climb unclimbed peaks in Greenland.
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The Storied Ice. Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica's Peninsual Region

By: Boothe Joan N.

Price: £140.00

Publisher: Regent Press : 2011

Seller ID: 73811

ISBN-13: 9781587902246

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 373pp, pictorial boards, Fine, signed on the title page by Joan Boothe. Now uncommon.

A well reserached and comprehensive history of the exploration of the Antarctic Peninsula. A worthy addition to any polar collection.
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From Scott To Fuchs

By: Bowman Gerald

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Evans Brothers : 1958

Seller ID: 69524

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 191pp, original blue cloth, slight lean to spine, small bump to top corner, a little water marking to first few and last few pages, light foreedge foxing, bump to one corner, Good in Good dw.

Bowman looks at the recent success of Fuchs and Hillary with their crossing of Antarctica and relates the achievement to previous expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic.
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The Crevasse. A critical response to David Day's Flaws In The Ice

By: Bradford Karyn Maguire

Price: £22.00

Publisher: The Erskine Press : 2015

Seller ID: 72675

ISBN-13: 9781852971182

Binding: paperback

Condition: 96pp, softback, New

David Day was very critical of Douglas Mawson in his book, Flaws in the Ice, this is an attempt to respond to those criticisms.
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The Place-Names of Svalbard. Skrifter om Svalbard Ishavet, No.80

By: Brekke Annemor [editor]

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Norsk Polarinstitutt : 1991

Seller ID: 65109

ISBN-13: 9788290307825

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 539pp +133pp, pictorial boards, VG+. Text in English. A scarce title.

The Place-Names of Svalbard was originally published by Norsk Polarinstitutt as Skrifter No.80 in 1942 with a supplement edition in 1958. This edition combines both publications into one volume. It is a true copy of the old editions as no corrections or additions have been made.
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The Place-Names of Svalbard. Skrifter om Svalbard Ishavet, No.80

By: Brekke Annemor [editor]

Price: £72.00

Publisher: Kommisjon Hos Jacob Dybwad : 1942

Seller ID: 65370

Binding: paperback

Condition: 539pp, paperback, fading to spine, ink stamp of a Geological bureau on front cover, number label to spine, near VG. Text in English. A scarce title.

The Place-Names of Svalbard was originally published by Norsk Polarinstitutt as Skrifter No.80 in 1942. A supplement followed in 1958.
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Kendall Whaling Museum Paintings

By: Brewington M. V. & Dorothy

Price: £32.00

Publisher: Kendall Whaling Museum : 1965

Seller ID: 72839

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xiii, 137pp, illusts, original red cloth with decorative gilt, Fine.

A catalogue of the paintings, drawings and other pictorial materials in the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts. The museum was founded in 1955 by Henry P. Kendall, who had been collecting whaling-related materials since the 1920s. He purchased the property of the former Sharon Sanatorium and officially opened in 1956, and grew in its facilities, collections, activities, and reputation for the next 45 years. It boasted a fine, eclectic international collection of whaling-related artworks, artifacts, tools and equipment, vessel logbooks, manuscripts, and photographs, as well as an a...
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Kendall Whaling Museum Prints

By: Brewington M. V. & Dorothy

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Kendall Whaling Museum : 1969

Seller ID: 72840

Binding: hardcover

Condition: vii, 209pp, illusts, original blue cloth with decorative gilt, signature of Ann Savours Shirley, the polar historian, Fine.

A catalogue of the prints in the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts. The museum was founded in 1955 by Henry P. Kendall, who had been collecting whaling-related materials since the 1920s. He purchased the property of the former Sharon Sanatorium and officially opened in 1956, and grew in its facilities, collections, activities, and reputation for the next 45 years. It boasted a fine, eclectic international collection of whaling-related artworks, artifacts, tools and equipment, vessel logbooks, manuscripts, and photographs, as well as an ample research library. The museum operated ...
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Scandinavia The Rough Guide

By: Brown J. & Sinclair M.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Rough Guides Ltd : 1995

Seller ID: 1623

Binding: paperback

Condition: paperback, Fine

The Last Wilderness. Eighty days In Antarctica

By: Brown Paul

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Hutchison : 1991

Seller ID: 73780

ISBN-13: 9780091744236

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 250pp, Fine in Fine dw

The gripping human story of the 1988 Greenpeace voyage to survey the scientific bases in Antarctica.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £150.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 55084

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, new spine in closely matching cloth, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £130.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 50569

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, some sunning to boards, wear to extremities, foxing to endpapers, Good+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £110.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 47768

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 316pp, new dark grey cloth binding with original spine and image from front board relaid, spine lettering and front image faded, VG- in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages Of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £175.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 56905

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, professional recased with new spine and original laid on, light foxing to endpapers and foreedges, an attractive tight copy, VG+ in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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A Naturalist At The Poles. The Life, Work & Voyages of Dr. W.S. Bruce The Polar Explorer.

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £140.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co : 1923

Seller ID: 72784

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 316pp, original pictorial boards, slight wear to head and tail of spine, VG in colour photocopy of original dw.

Includes chapters on Bruce's expeditions to Franz Josef Land and Svalbard, his mapping and coal prospecting in Prince Charles Foreland.
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Spitsbergen. An Account Of Exploration, Hunting, The Mineral Riches & Future Potentialities Of An Arctic Archipelago

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £100.00

Publisher: Seeley, service & Co : 1920

Seller ID: 56120

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 319pp, 22 illusts, folding map lacking but replaced with photocopy, original pictorial black cloth, private bookplate, owner's signature, G.

Presentation of knowledge then held concerning the history of exploration, and development, the physical features and resources, and the question of sovereignty of the Spitsbergen archipelago.
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Spitsbergen. An Account Of Exploration, Hunting, The Mineral Riches & Future Potentialities Of An Arctic Archipelago

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £125.00

Publisher: Seeley, service & Co : 1920

Seller ID: 69082

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 319pp, 22 illusts, folding map, original pictorial black cloth, light foxing to foreedges, VG+. An attractive copy.

Presentation of knowledge then held concerning the history of exploration, and development, the physical features and resources, and the question of sovereignty of the Spitsbergen archipelago.
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The Polar Regions. A Physical and Economic Geography of the Arctic and Antarctic

By: Brown R.N. Rudmose

Price: £27.00

Publisher: Metheun & Co : 1927

Seller ID: 73768

Binding: hardcover

Condition: ix, 245pp, 23 maps, original green cloth, darkening to spine, light foxing, VG

The Log of the Scotia Expedition, 1902-4

By: Bruce William Spiers

Price: £140.00

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 72447

ISBN-13: 9780748602933

Binding: hardcover

Condition: viii, 306pp, original brown cloth, VG+ in VG+ dw.

Account of the 1902-4 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, led by William Speirs Bruce. They spent over a year surveying the South Orkney Islands and collecting data and specimens of geology and wildlife.
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The Log of the Scotia Expedition, 1902-4

By: Bruce William Spiers

Price: £140.00

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press : 1992

Seller ID: 74140

ISBN-13: 9780748602933

Binding: hardcover

Condition: viii, 306pp, original brown cloth, VG+ in VG+ dw.

Account of the 1902-4 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, led by William Speirs Bruce. They spent over a year surveying the South Orkney Islands and collecting data and specimens of geology and wildlife.
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Ordeal By Ice. Ships of the Antarctic

By: Bryan Rorke

Price: £29.00

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing : 2011

Seller ID: 73774

ISBN-13: 9781848321168

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 544pp, 189 x 247mm, maps, colour photos, black and white photos, hardback, Fine in Fine dw, label signed by Rorke Bryan to title page.

This richly illustrated book is destined to become the reference book on ships of the Antarctic. Surrounded by some of the most hazardous seas, Antarctica was first sighted less than three centuries ago. Since then, hundreds of ships have voyaged in Antarctic waters, challenged by poorly-charted waters, storms, pack ice, icebergs, and disease. This is the story of these ships, the expeditions they supported, and their subsequent history, from the fifteenth-century fleets of the Ming Emperors of China to the tourist ships and powerful icebreakers of today. Using extensive research in archives, ...
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The Siege And Conquest Of The North Pole

By: Bryce George

Price: £26.00

Publisher: Gibbings & Company : 1910

Seller ID: 1700

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 334pp, boards dull & rubbed so VG-, VG internally

Silas. The Antarctic Diaries and Memoir of Charles S. Wright.

By: Bull Colin and Wright Pat F. [editors]

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Ohio State University Press : 1993

Seller ID: 73301

ISBN-13: 9780814205488

Binding: hardcover

Condition: xxx, 418pp, private bookplate, VG+ in VG+ dw

This collection of journals, memoirs, and letters tells the remarkable story of Robert Falcon Scott's last journey to the Antarctic, as seen through the eyes of Charles S. Wright, the expedition's physicist and glaciologist.
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No Ordinary Journey. John Rae Arctic Explorer 1813 - 1893

By: Bunyan Ian, Calder Jenni, Idiens Dale, Wilson Bryce

Price: £20.00

Publisher: National Museums Of Scotland : 1993

Seller ID: 74710

ISBN-13: 9780773511071

Binding: paperback

Condition: 116pp, large paperback, private bookplate, VG+. Uncommon in this condition.

The life and travels of John Rae against the background of his Orkney origins.
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Moments of Terror. The Story of Antarctic Aviation

By: Burke David

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Robert Hale : 1994

Seller ID: 73775

ISBN-13: 9780709053095

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 320pp, Fine in Fine dw

An outstanding survey of Antarctic aviation.
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The Great Ice Ship BEAR. Eighty-Nine Years In Polar Seas

By: Burroughs Polly

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co : 1970

Seller ID: 73779

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 104pp, map endpapers, Fine in VG dw

Antarctic Night

By: Bursey Jack

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co : 1958

Seller ID: 73763

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 256pp, original blue cloth, top corner of front endpaper clipped, VG in Good+ dw.

Three journeys on the Ross Ice Shelf and in Marie Byrd Land in 1929, 1940 & 1956 by dog & tractor.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £44.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2011

Seller ID: 68487

ISBN-13: 9780956927200

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper, signed by Angie Butler.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £44.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2011

Seller ID: 68484

ISBN-13: 9780956927200

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 214pp, hardback, New in dustwrapper, signed by Angie Butler.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2019

Seller ID: 74334

ISBN-13: 9780956927217

Binding: paperback

Condition: 232p, paperback, New, signed by Angie Butler.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published. This reprint includes an epilogue covering the return of Wild's ashes to South Georgia.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2019

Seller ID: 74335

ISBN-13: 9780956927217

Binding: paperback

Condition: 232p, paperback, New, signed by Angie Butler.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published. This reprint includes an epilogue covering the return of Wild's ashes to South Georgia.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2011

Seller ID: 74357

ISBN-13: 9780956927200

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 214pp, hardback, VG in VG dustwrapper.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2011

Seller ID: 74359

ISBN-13: 9780956927200

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 214pp, hardback, bump to base of spine, VG in VG dustwrapper.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published.
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The Quest For Frank Wild

By: Butler Angie

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2019

Seller ID: 74338

ISBN-13: 9780956927217

Binding: paperback

Condition: 232p, paperback, New, signed by Angie Butler.

The truth of the final years of Frank Wild's life. Wild was Ernest Shackleton's closest friend and the only explorer to serve on five expeditions during the Heroic Age. The book fulfils Wild's wish to have his memoirs published. This reprint includes an epilogue covering the return of Wild's ashes to South Georgia.
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Shackleton?s Critic. The Life and Diaries of Eric Stewart Marshall

By: Butler Angie and Riffenburgh Beau

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2020

Seller ID: 71646

ISBN-13: 9780956927224

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, pictorial hardback, New, signed by Angie Butler and also with a label signed by Beau Riffenburgh.

On 9 January 1909, Eric Stewart Marshall joined Ernest Shackleton and two others in raising the Union Jack high on the desolate Antarctic Plateau, the farthest south achieved by man. A month and a half later, his individual heroics saved his three companions, who would otherwise have been doomed to icy graves. Two years on, Marshall stood alone on a ridge deep in the interior of New Guinea, the first man from the Western world ever to see it. But Marshall received neither fame nor fortune from these great achievements and became ever more embittered. As time passed, much of Marshall?s spleen w...
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Shackleton?s Critic. The Life and Diaries of Eric Stewart Marshall

By: Butler Angie and Riffenburgh Beau

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2020

Seller ID: 71555

ISBN-13: 9780956927224

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, pictorial hardback, tiny bump to top corner, New, signed by Angie Butler and Beau Riffenburgh.

On 9 January 1909, Eric Stewart Marshall joined Ernest Shackleton and two others in raising the Union Jack high on the desolate Antarctic Plateau, the farthest south achieved by man. A month and a half later, his individual heroics saved his three companions, who would otherwise have been doomed to icy graves. Two years on, Marshall stood alone on a ridge deep in the interior of New Guinea, the first man from the Western world ever to see it. But Marshall received neither fame nor fortune from these great achievements and became ever more embittered. As time passed, much of Marshall?s spleen w...
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Shackleton?s Critic. The Life and Diaries of Eric Stewart Marshall

By: Butler Angie and Riffenburgh Beau

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Jackleberry Press : 2020

Seller ID: 71649

ISBN-13: 9780956927224

Binding: hardcover

Condition: 360pp, pictorial hardback, New, signed by Angie Butler and also with a label signed by Beau Riffenburgh.

On 9 January 1909, Eric Stewart Marshall joined Ernest Shackleton and two others in raising the Union Jack high on the desolate Antarctic Plateau, the farthest south achieved by man. A month and a half later, his individual heroics saved his three companions, who would otherwise have been doomed to icy graves. Two years on, Marshall stood alone on a ridge deep in the interior of New Guinea, the first man from the Western world ever to see it. But Marshall received neither fame nor fortune from these great achievements and became ever more embittered. As time passed, much of Marshall?s spleen w...
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