LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. A good example of one of the rarest polar works. Following Shackleton's experience on the Scott expedition of 1901-4, and particularly his involvement in editing the South Polar Times, he realised the importance of providing a polar expedition with sufficient tasks to occupy themselves over the dark winter months. To this end when planning his own expedition to the South Pole (1907-9) he shipped a printing press, paper and necessary type and plate making equipment all donated by J.Causton & Sons Ltd. Despite the cold and the cramped conditions of the hut at Cape Royds, around 100 copies were printed and bound in the antarctic winter of 1908. The printers of the work, Frank Wild and Ernest Joyce, had both taken a quick course in printing before their departure from England, and despite their inexperience were soon setting out and printing two pages a day.