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Elephant Island and Beyond. The Life and Diaries of Thomas Orde Lees.

Name: Elephant Island and Beyond. The Life and Diaries of Thomas Orde Lees.
Author: [Shackleton's Endurance expedition.] John Thomson, ed.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 339, [4, ads.]; illusts., maps; original cloth, d.-w., as new.

Dealer Notes

Orde Lees, a member of Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance, was one of those who remained on Elephant Island when ‘The Boss’ and a few companions departed aboard the James Caird to seek rescue in 1916. An important record of the party and its wait for deliverance.

Author [Shackleton's Endurance expedition.] John Thomson, ed.

Date 2003

Binding Original cloth in d.-w.

Publisher Bluntisham Books

Condition See description

Pages viii, 339, [4, ads.]

Price: £35.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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