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SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON (1874-1922)
South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920. 8° (250 x 155mm). Colour-printed photographic frontispiece after Frank Hurley, one folding map, 87 monochrome plates, including 75 after photographs by Hurley [one double-page] and 5 after drawings by George Marston. (Occasional soiling, occasional dampstain in bottom margin, repaired tears to map, front free endpaper worn, inscription and some signatures covered in cellophane.) Original blue cloth (wrapped in brown paper pasted at endpapers, hinges cracked.) Provenance: Charles John Green.
PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SHACKLETON TO ENDURANCE'S COOK: 'C.J. Green from Ernest Shackleton in remembrance of all sorts of cooking places but always well cooked food. 1920.' WITH THE SIGNATURES OF 11 CREW MEMBERS tipped-in, including: Worsley, Wild, and Hussey, AND WITH AN ALBUM OF CLIPPINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CORRESPONDENCE COMPILED BY GREEN. Shackleton writes of Green in South that 'he had not much idle time. The amount of seal and sea elephant steak and blubber consumed by our hungry party was almost incredible ... he earned everybody's gratitude by his unflagging energy in preparing meals that to us at least were savoury and satisfying. Frankly, we needed all the comfort that the hot food could give us' (p. 155). Green recalled in one of his lectures that after the wreck of Endurance, while awaiting rescue, the men survived on seaweed boiled in blubber and bad meat. Things became so bad that it was seriously suggested that one man be killed to provide food for the others. cf: Conrad p.224; Rosove 308.A1 ('a classic ... and one of the finest in the Antarctic literature'); Spence 1107; Taurus 105.
[With:] A small archive including Charles Green's Continuous Certificate of Discharge for 1928-1931, and an album of photographs, letters, and clippings dated ca.1928-1970 compiled by Green. This includes a printed invitation to a lecture given by Green in Philadelphia November 1928, a printed invitation from Shackleton to the 50th anniversary commemoration at the House of Lords of the sailing of Endurance, a typescript poem dated September 1930 titled 'A Living Dead Man', about Green, by George Hoover Streaker.
South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920. 8° (250 x 155mm). Colour-printed photographic frontispiece after Frank Hurley, one folding map, 87 monochrome plates, including 75 after photographs by Hurley [one double-page] and 5 after drawings by George Marston. (Occasional soiling, occasional dampstain in bottom margin, repaired tears to map, front free endpaper worn, inscription and some signatures covered in cellophane.) Original blue cloth (wrapped in brown paper pasted at endpapers, hinges cracked.) Provenance: Charles John Green.
PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SHACKLETON TO ENDURANCE'S COOK: 'C.J. Green from Ernest Shackleton in remembrance of all sorts of cooking places but always well cooked food. 1920.' WITH THE SIGNATURES OF 11 CREW MEMBERS tipped-in, including: Worsley, Wild, and Hussey, AND WITH AN ALBUM OF CLIPPINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CORRESPONDENCE COMPILED BY GREEN. Shackleton writes of Green in South that 'he had not much idle time. The amount of seal and sea elephant steak and blubber consumed by our hungry party was almost incredible ... he earned everybody's gratitude by his unflagging energy in preparing meals that to us at least were savoury and satisfying. Frankly, we needed all the comfort that the hot food could give us' (p. 155). Green recalled in one of his lectures that after the wreck of Endurance, while awaiting rescue, the men survived on seaweed boiled in blubber and bad meat. Things became so bad that it was seriously suggested that one man be killed to provide food for the others. cf: Conrad p.224; Rosove 308.A1 ('a classic ... and one of the finest in the Antarctic literature'); Spence 1107; Taurus 105.
[With:] A small archive including Charles Green's Continuous Certificate of Discharge for 1928-1931, and an album of photographs, letters, and clippings dated ca.1928-1970 compiled by Green. This includes a printed invitation to a lecture given by Green in Philadelphia November 1928, a printed invitation from Shackleton to the 50th anniversary commemoration at the House of Lords of the sailing of Endurance, a typescript poem dated September 1930 titled 'A Living Dead Man', about Green, by George Hoover Streaker.
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