In an age when it is fashionable to forget the achievements of the great explorers of the heroic age, comes the timely rebirth of this legendary book, penned by a band of brave British men whose wit and wisdom blazes like a sun beside today???s lesser stars. In 1907 Ernest Shackleton led the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica. He established a base camp at Cape Royds on Ross Island and built a wooden hut to serve as headquarters. Because of his prior experience with Robert Scott???s first expedition, Shackleton knew the ...
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In an age when it is fashionable to forget the achievements of the great explorers of the heroic age, comes the timely rebirth of this legendary book, penned by a band of brave British men whose wit and wisdom blazes like a sun beside today???s lesser stars. In 1907 Ernest Shackleton led the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica. He established a base camp at Cape Royds on Ross Island and built a wooden hut to serve as headquarters. Because of his prior experience with Robert Scott???s first expedition, Shackleton knew the sunless winter months spent in these cramped quarters would test the morale of his men, so he set several of them to work writing and printing the first book ever produced on the Antarctic continent. Containing fact, fiction, humour, prose and poetry, ???Aurora Australis, ??? is one of the most extraordinary travel books ever written. It contains stories about the Antarctic wildlife, describes the harsh conditions suffered by the explorers and recounts their journey to the top of Mount Erebus, a nearby active volcano surrounded by ice. An estimated one hundred copies were originally ???Printed at the Sign of the Penguin??? by these gifted authors, the result of which is a unique symbol of the heroic age of exploration. Because of its rarity a first edition of ???Aurora Australis??? recently sold for more than $100,000. This special edition is being produced in an effort to raise awareness of the need to conserve the four huts used by the British explorers, along with the remarkable memorabilia and icebound supplies preserved within their frozen walls. Having endured nearly a century of harsh weather, these huts still symbolise the nobler aspects of human nature which took these talented and brave men to Antarctica. The buildings are now considered to be some of the most endangered historic structures in the world.
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Add this copy of Aurora Australis From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic to cart. $14.95, very good condition, Sold by Archives Book Shop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from East Lansing, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Seto Publishing Ltd..
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Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket; DJ: Wrinkled at edges. 0908697244. Unpaginated. Binding tight, text clean. In protective mylar wrap.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to. xxiii, unpag, bw ills. Or cloth in jacket. Some fading to spine. Based on one of very few original bound copies of Aurora Australia known to exist. An account of Shackleton's 1908/09 exploration on Antarctica. The unpaginated section of the book appears to be in facsimile of the original known as the Julienne edition.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Book is tight with no markings, some tanning to page edges, minor curling/creasing to dj edges, nice copy.
Add this copy of Aurora Australis. 1908-1909 to cart. $22.06, very good condition, Sold by Cassidy's Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Holbeach, LINCOLNSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1988 by UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd, 1988: 1853100609.Shipping outside the U.K.? see Shipping Alert details
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Hardback complete with dust wrapper. The book measures 10¼" x 7¾, it has xxiii pages of introductory text and the main text pages are not numbered. The book is illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. The wrapper spine has faded slightly, otherwise, the binding, contents and dust wrapper are in excellent condition. VG+/VG.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. pp. Unpaginated. Paper over boards. Full color endpapers. Illustrations. An account of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition. Includes an unpaginated section of a facsimile of the original account of that trip written in Antarctica by members of the expedition. Unpaginated. Book and DJ show slight wear, otherwise, crisp, clean, tight, never opened /read. Adult nonfiction. General audience.
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