The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909...With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. An account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole by Professor T.W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S. Winter Quarters 1907-1909.
Library binding of quarter blue calf. Ex-library, with usual stamps including the reverse of the plates and illustrations. Binding good and tight, but maps and panoramas in poor, repaired condition. A Good- Very Good ex-library copy, which makes a normally very expensive book very reasonably priced!.
Heinemann, London 1909 , lst UK edition. 2 vols, 4to. 371 pp, 114 plates, 11 diagrams in text (&) 419 pp, 94 plates, 33 ills. in text, 3 fold-out maps and 1 fold- out panorama.
This is the official account of Shackleton's expedition on the 'Nimrod', 1907- 1909, the 1st expedition under his own command. Shackleton had previously been a member of Scott's 'Discovery' expedition, and had three goals for his expedition- reaching the South Pole, planting the Union Jack at the South Magnetic Pole and exploring the Ross Barrier. Shackleton sought to further scientific knowledge in the fields of meteorology, zoology, mineralogy, geology, tidal movements, hydrography, etc.
A detailed account of the expedition and accounts of daily travel. Shackleton was later to achieve fame on his 'Endurance' expedition, in which his ship was crushed in ice; he and his men managed to attain Elephant Island, where most of the men stayed while Shackleton and a small group navigated 800 miles in open seas in the tiny 'James Caird' to find help at the whaling station of South Georgia. Astoundingly, there was no loss of life.
Shackleton's narrative of the 'Nimrod' voyage and expedition of 1907-1909 is not onlyone of the classics of Polar exploration, but a great read in its own right. Shackleton had three goals for the mission and divided the company intothree groups: one would set out to reach the Pole, another to plant a flagat the South Magnetic Pole, and the third to explore the Ross Barrier.
