SIGNED and Inscribed by Eric Shipton on half title page
London, 1973, 1st edition. 175 pp, 16 ills, maps. Shipton's history of Tierra Del Fuego. Eric Shipton opens and concludes his narrative of the many explorers and others who sailed or settled there with an account of his own explorations in the 'land of fire'. The result is a richly coloured story of courage, shame and madness. History of discovery and colonization, with a chapter on his first approach to the remote Mount Burney. Hardcover DJ, Fine.