South with Endurance Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917The Photographs of Frank Hurley
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia: Viking/Penguin Books Australia, 2001. Large quarto, pale teal-blue hardcover, spine embossed with silver lettering, 320 pp., frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs, some colour photographs included. Spine ends bumped and rubbed, edges of covers rubbed, corners a little rubbed, right edge of front free endpapr rubbed, light foxing on leaf edges, "Knox Grammer School Library" stamped in grey on some pages, edges of dust-jacket very lightly worn, dust-jacket a little discoloured; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. An illuminating pictorial essay of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition captured by the brilliant Australian photography Frank Hurley. This volume presents more than 500 of Hurley's extraordinary images of the historic expedition, including many colour photographs never published before. The photographs are complimented by excerpts from Hurley's expedition diary, a chapter about the expedition itself, a biographical essay and commentary on Hurley's photographic techniques. Item #4790
Ex-library book. Title page, leaves 61, 83, 133 and paste-down back endpaper are stampled with a circular grey "Knox Grammer School Library" stamp.
Price (AUD): $150.00