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I have a paperback book entitled "South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of
Shackleton and the Endurance" with a forward by Tim Cahill. Lyons Press.
376pp. 1st ed. 1998. I have not counted the illustrations and line drawings
but the book certainly has plenty of both. There appears to be a lot of
Hurley's photos in the book. It also contains two appendices and index.  I
can't promise that it will deliver what you are looking for George but it is
a very good book and appears to be fairly complete. I confess it has been a
few years since I last read it so other than the above, I cannot offer any
further comments or recommendations.

I also have an older book written by Shackleton himself, entitled:
"Shackleton in the Antarctic (being the story of the British Antarctic
Expedition 1907-1909)" published in 1922 by William Heinemann, London. The
book, 255 pages long, has about 50 illustrations. I paid $10 Cdn for it at a
used book store about 20 years ago. This sounds like the same version that
disappointed you George.

So there's my two bits' worth on that topic. Hope this helps.

cheers

Robert


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Huxtable" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: [NavList 7478] Shackleton's "South"


>
> Shackleton's attempt at a transpolar crossing in 1915-16, written up in
> his
> book "South", has been much discussed on the list recently.
>
> It has brought home to me the defects in my paperback copy of "South",
> published by Century publishing, London, 1983. This appears to have the
> full
> text, as far as I can tell, including appendices, 368 pages, but none of
> Hurley's photos, and no map.
>
> Hoping to put that right, I've just bought, quite cheaply, an older
> hardback
> copy, published in 1936 by Heinemann (who produced the original edition in
> 1919, now extremely expensive), because it had the Hurley photos. Which it
> does, 32 of them, but it turns out when you get into it that this is a
> reprint of the "new abridged edition, 1922"; not what I wanted at all,
> with
> only 202 pages of much-shortened text, no appendices.
>
> Being long out of copyright, South" is now available from many different
> publishers, but the trouble with searching for a more-complete version is
> that it's hard to tell what it's a reprint of, before it arrives.
>
> But an early full-text version is digitised on Project Gutenberg, and this
> tells me that there were over 70 plates with it. That's what I would like
> to
> obtain, without breaking the bank for it. I would be quite happy with a
> paperback version, provided it is complete, and the photos have been
> decently reproduced.
>
> A promising candidate seems to be "South: The Story of Shackleton's Last
> Expedition in the Antarctic", a paperback published in the US by the Lyons
> Press in 1998, which claims to offer "70 photos & line drawings" ISBN
> 9781558217836 , which I can buy cheaply.  I wonder if any Navlist member
> happens to have a copy, and can recommend it or otherwise. Or
> alternatively,
> any other version that appears to be complete.
>
> George.
>
> contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
> or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
> or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
>
>
> >
>



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