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$NZ500 SOUTH POLAR TRAIL, Ernest Joyce, Duckworth London, 1st edn., 1929, 220 page hardback in original blue cloth, B&W plates, diagrams, This is the only first-hand narrative of the Ross Sea party

THE SOUTH POLAR TRAIL, Ernest Joyce, Duckworth London, 1st edn., 1929, 220 page hardback in original blue cloth, B&W plates, diagrams, previous owner's name fep, This is the only first-hand narrative of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Expedition. While Shackleton and his men in Endurance were trapped in the ice on the opposite side of the continent , the men of the Ross Sea party laboured to set depots from Hut Point to the Beardmore Glacier in anticipation of Shackleton's arrival from the Weddell Sea. Of the ten men of the party three died and it is a story almost unmentioned today. $NZ500 (Arnold Heine Collection)

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THE SOUTH POLAR TRAIL, Ernest Joyce, Duckworth London, 1st edn., 1929, 220 page hardback in original blue cloth, B&W plates, diagrams, previous owner's name fep, This is the only first-hand narrative of the Ross Sea party of Shackleton's Imperial Transantarctic Expedition. While Shackleton and his men in Endurance were trapped in the ice on the opposite side of the continent , the men of the Ross Sea party laboured to set depots from Hut Point to the Beardmore Glacier in anticipation of Shackleton's arrival from the Weddell Sea. Of the ten men of the party three died and it is a story almost unmentioned today. $NZ500 (Arnold Heine Collection)