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‘A BRILLIANT PIECE OF RESEARCH BY HUNTFORD’

Octavo (233 x 154mm), pp. xx, 774, [6 (blank ll.)]. 12 half-tone plates with photographic illustrations after Frank Hurley et al. recto-and-verso. Maps in the text, 7 full-page. (A few small marks, light marking on edges of bookblock, small hole [?production flaw] on lower margin of pp. 307-308.) Original blue boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, map endpapers, dustwrapper, not price-clipped. (Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine, edges slightly creased, unobtrusive small damp-marks on lower edge.) A very good copy.
Dealer Notes
First edition. The winner of the Nelson, Hurst & Marsh Biography Award in 1989, Huntford’s Shackleton is generally considered to be the best modern biography of the explorer. Rosove describes it as ‘a brilliant piece of research by Huntford, drawing on numerous unpublished sources including important diaries of Shackleton associates that became available for review after Margery and James Fisher’s biography of 1959. This book and the biographies by Hugh Robert Mill and the Fishers are the principal Shackleton reference works’. Huntford was also the author or editor of a number of other works on polar exploration, including Scott and Amundsen (London, 1979), Nansen: the Explorer as Hero (London, 2000), and The Race for the South Pole: the Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen (London, 2010). The first edition of Shackleton – which is described by Rosove as ‘uncommon’ – is scarce on the market.

Rosove 176.
Author SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry – Roland HUNTFORD
Date 1985
Publisher London: St. Edmondsbury Press for Hodder and Stoughton

Price: £39.50

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