Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton

Hurley’s reputation as a photographer is firmly established with his wonderful legacy of photos both in the Antarctic and elsewhere. He was the official photographer for both Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) and Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17), which saw the sinking of the ship Endurance. The first portion of his book is devoted to the Mawson expedition and the latter half to Shackleton’s expedition. Some of the photographs included for the Mawson expedition were not in the official account ‘The Home of the Blizzard’ and about half of those related to the Endurance were not in Shackleton’s book ‘South’. His account of life on Elephant Island, following the sinking of the Endurance, is one of the few first-hand accounts. Later editions of this book, titled ‘Shackleton’s Argonauts’, only included the Shackleton portion. A very nice copy. Uncommon.

AB-USN 23.294, Conrad p.205, Karrow 345, Renard 768, Rosove 178.A1, Spence 615, Taurus 144.