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First Hungarian Edition of Shackleton’s The Heart of the Atlantic

[Shakleton, Sir Ernst]; Halász, Gyula

Shackleton az Antarktisz szívében 180 kilométerre a Déli Sarktól. [The Heart of the Atlantic.]

Budapest: Világirodalom Könyvkiadóvállalat, [1926?]. First Hungarian edition. With several photographic illustrations. In publisher’s, decorated half-cloth, printed in black and red. [2] 64 [2] 65–112 [2] 113–176 [2] 177–223 [1] p. Spine and endpapers restored. Cover bumped at extremities. Library stamp on title page and p. 49. Some stains here and there. Tanned. In very good condition.

First Hungarian edition of Shackleton’s journal of his attempt to reach the South Pole.

During the Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, Shackleton a new record Farthest South, 180 km from the South Pole, which is the largest advance to the pole in exploration history.

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Price: €500.00