Aurora Australis (2021) - Limited edition

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Aurora Australis (2021) - Limited edition
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Aurora Australis (2021) - Limited edition

Ernest Shackleton
Edition year 2021
Binding Leather
Illustrator George Marston
Limited edition Yes
Weight 3 Kg
Pages Main volume: 194; commentary: 16
Dimensions Main volume: 11 × 8 in; commentary: 10 × 7½ in

Edition details

Aurora Australis by Ernest Shackleton and members of the ‘Nimrod’ Expedition. FACSIMILE VOLUME 11 illustrations by George Marston. Quarter-bound in brown calfskin leather with brown beechwood Venesta boards. Hand-sewn binding with green twine. 194 pp. 11x8in. COMMENTARY BOOKLET Commentary by Jan Piggott. Printed letterpress. Bound in green Tintoretto Ceylon paper cover blocked in brown foil. 16pp. 10x7½in. CLAMSHELL BOX Fawn linen-covered spine blocked in brown foil and front inset with a calfskin leather label blind-blocked with the ‘Printed at the Sign of “The Penguins”’ device. 12x9x2¼in. 500 copies (£495)

About the book

Aurora Australis is a collection of essays, stories and poems produced during Ernest Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition of 1907–09. Written and printed by members of the expedition while wintering at Cape Royds, the book captures the humour, imagination and intellectual life of explorers living in extreme isolation. Its contents range from Antarctic observations to fiction and light verse, making it a remarkable cultural document of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.

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