ENDURANCE Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Lansing, Alfred - 1959

NY: McGraw Hill. Very Good- in Poor dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. The color is worn from the tips of the fore corners and the top/bottom of the spine, but nowhere is the cloth worn through to the boards. Binding is clean and sound. Name on ffep, writ small in red ik. Contents are clean and unworn, with no writing or other entries in the text. DJ is badly worn, torn, with a large piece missing. The flaps are complete, so most of the information is still present. (LR-4-D) . ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION, 1959. 8-1/2" Tall, map endpapers, VIII + 282pp. Black and medium blue boards, bright silver spine lettering. TRUE ADVENTURE. "In 1915, a thousand miles from the South Pole, surrounded by nearly a million square miles of pack ice, twenty-eight desperate men began to haul supplies and personal possessions from their crushed, sinking vessel, the proud ENDURANCE. But in the wasteland around them, the one place left to pitch camp was an ice flow which was itself gradually crumbling away. Nobody else knew the ENDURANCE was in trouble, radio being useless. Sir Ernest Shackleton's' brilliant command of the diverse sailors, scientists, and officers under his command, and his defvotion to the little party he held togerther and led back to the world make ENDURANCE a superb sea adventure. It is also a penetrating study of a great explorer and an incomparable leader of men. " Double-page b/w photo is part of the title pages. 12 pages of b/w photos. (LR-4-D) . .