By Nobu Shirase

Tokyo: Hihon Tosho Senta. Third Edition, August 1998. Ross 1.4.3
pp. 1, (2), 298 text, [1], 5. 1 black-and-white frontis leaf; 32 sketches in text; one map in text. 18.1 cm. Horizontally textured white cloth, spine, front and rear covers lettered and decorated in black, grayish-tan endpapers flecked with white. Pictorial dustjacket with portrait of Shirase.

This well-produced third edition under a similar title as the 1942 second edition titled Watakushi No Nankyoku Tankenki (Ross 1.4.2) is a re-write of Nankyoku Tanken. Nankyoku Tanken (Ross 1.4.1) is Shirase’s personal narrative documenting the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. The third edition varies with the addition of pages 1 – 42 that add details about Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition. At page 43, the text becomes identical to the first edition of Nankyoku Tanken. The illustrations used in this edition are reproduced from Nankyoku-ki.

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