THE LAST ANTARCTIC HEROES

by Bickel, Lennard

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Book desription: NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1989. xiii, + 230pp., 2 x 8 page, b/white halftone illustrated sections, map printed front and rear endpapers and ditto inside covers. Book clean, slightly canted. Spine firm. Previous owner's gift inscription to title page, slight browning to endpapers, otherwise leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn and bumped, minor browning to rear (text) panel. "Ernest Shackleton and his team sailed from England for the Antarctic in the 'Endurance' in August, 1914. A few months later, the 'Aurora' sailed south to McMurdo Sound with a second group of men who would lay supply depots . . . these men were castaways too, marooned by the loss of 'Aurora' and left with little more than the clothes they wore. For eight months they laid down the precious supplies for the men who never came . . . The story of these forgotten heroes highlights the capacity of ordinary men for tragedy, endurance and noble actions." Contents include: Prelims., 10 chapters, The Crossing of the Antarctic Continent: an assessment by Sir Vivian Fuchs, Index. Book weight approx. 440g. PLEASE NOTE: LISTED BOOKS ARE NOT STORED AT SHOP PREMISES. DIGITAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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