Description
The first English edition of Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, published in 1959.
Octavo, 287pp, [1]. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. No additional printings noted. Bumped corner along top edge, faint foxing to half title, internally clean. Complete with eight photographic plates, 20 illustrations in total. Endpapers with maps of the Weddell Sea. In the publisher’s dust jacket, 21s net retail price on front flap, light sunning to spine, shelf wear, a very good example.
(Rosove 195, B1)
The first edition of Endurance by Alfred Lansing was published by McGraw-Hill Book Company of New York in 1959, and later that year by Hodder and Stoughton in London.
Endurance is a narrative account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Drawing heavily on the diaries and firsthand recollections of the expedition’s survivors, Lansing reconstructs the story of the ship Endurance becoming trapped and eventually crushed in Antarctic pack ice, forcing Shackleton and his crew to endure months of extreme hardship on the ice and in open boats before ultimately reaching safety.
