Aurora Australis From Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-09

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book edges and corners. Pages are sunned. Interior and binding are still very good. Dust jacket has creasing and scratches at top edge.

Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition to the Antarctic from 1907 to 1909, saw the first ascent of Mt Erebus, and the location of the South Magnetic Pole.

During the expedition, the Shackleton team travelled within 100 miles of the South Pole and wrote, designed, illustrated and bound a book recording its exploits. Hand-bound with twine, fewer than one hundred copies of Aurora Australis were produced.

This reproduction of Aurora Australis is a unique record of Shackleton's extraordinary publication produced n the depth of an Antarctic winter.