{"product_id":"hussey-leonard-duncan-albert-south-with-shackleton-with-a-foreword-by-admiral-lord-mountevans","title":"HUSSEY, Leonard Duncan Albert. South with Shackleton … With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHUSSEY, Leonard Duncan Albert.\u003c\/strong\u003e South with Shackleton … With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Sampson Low.\u003c\/i\u003e 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. ix, 182; illustrations to text by V.J. Bertoglio, map endpapers; light chipping and rubbing to wrapper, which is also slightly faded on spine, else a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, very rare with the dust-wrapper.\u003c\/strong\u003e A narrative of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 with a brief account of the \u003ci\u003eQuest\u003c\/i\u003e expedition. Hussey, a meteorologist, had been a member of both. His account includes many anecdotal details of daily life during the expeditions. Hussey was one of the 22 men left behind on Elephant Island awaiting rescue. The banjo he saved and his whit were instrumental in maintaining morale in this situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpence 617; Renard 773-4; Rosove 179.A1.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2124490\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57231134228857,"sku":"2124490","price":500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2124490.jpg?v=1778229300","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/hussey-leonard-duncan-albert-south-with-shackleton-with-a-foreword-by-admiral-lord-mountevans","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}