The Story Of The Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5
SHACKLETON'S SON'S FIRST POLAR EXPEDITION
Arctic Journeys The Story Of The Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5
Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered gilt on the spine, in the original pictorial dustwrapper by Theyre Lee-Elliott. Black and white photographic frontispiece; forty further photographic plates, one foldout showing two panoramas, one double-page; eleven tailpieces after drawings by an Eskimo; five maps, including a large two-tone fold-out map to the rear. A near fine copy, with a little spotting to the page edges but clean internally, in a near fine dustwrapper, a little wear to the spine ends and some tape ghosting to the back of the dustwrapper.
Edward Shackleton's account of the second expedition he arranged whilst still at university in Oxford. Though still only twenty-three, Shackleton had inherited his father's passion for exploration, having earlier organised a university expedition to Borneo.
In this post-heroic era of polar exploration, the focus was not on great undiscovered secrets of geography, but on more limited scientific interests. That said, the expedition discovered a new range of mountains in Grant Land, summitted and named Mount Oxford, and returned to the university with vast and valuable scientific data.
The owner of this copy, Samuel King Hutton, also explored and spent time as a missionary in the Arctic archipelago. The record of his time on Killiniq Island was published as Among The Eskimos Of Labrador by Seeley Service in 1912.
PROVENANCE: From the library of Arctic explorer, author and missionary Samuel King Hutton, with his Arctic bookplate to the front free endpaper.
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