By Frank Worsley

New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. First U.S. Edition. [xiv], 316 pp., Index. Illustrated with 23 full-page black-and-white photographs. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Right Hon. Earl Jellicoe. Publisher’s light green cloth cover with fading around perimeter of front and back cover. Spine evenly faded with titles legible, emperor penguin on lower right front cover as called for— cloth is in very good condition despite fading cloth which is typical of this publication due to a chemical reaction between the publisher’s adhesive and the sensitive cloth — as a result, most all copies in publisher’s cloth are faded in this manner. Very clean internally with prior owner’s attractive sepia toned book plate inside front cover; no foxing, folds, tears or prior ownership markings; hinges are tight and un-cracked. Scarce. –Spence 1277; Rosove 361.A2

Frank Worsley was Captain of the ‘Endurance’ and miraculously navigated the ‘James Caird’ to South Georgia. He also crossed the uncharted South Georgia Island along with Shackleton and Tom Crean. This is his modestly told story of the heroic efforts of Ernest Shackleton and his 27 companions in their survival and rescue in 1914-16 after the ‘Endurance’ was crushed by ice in the Antarctic. “Worsley wrote with extreme modesty and deference and seemed to regard Shackleton with an almost holy reverence, the fiber of the narrative is Worsley’s love for his leader”.—Rosove

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