Ernest Shackleton. Strictly Private. Proposed Trans-Antarctic Expedition, ca. 1913
Ernest Shackleton. Strictly Private. Proposed Trans-Antarctic Expedition, ca. 1913
Ernest Shackleton. Strictly Private. Proposed Trans-Antarctic Expedition, ca. 1913
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1913
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MLMSS 9807
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0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume) - 29 x 22 cm - 1 typescript, 11 pages, with manuscript annotations
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Contents
Typescript document, with manuscript annotations and signed by Ernest Shackleton. The document outlines the “Objects of the Expedition” ; “Method of Conducting the Expedition”, including the Personnel involved ; “Programme of the Expedition” ; “Cost of the Expedition” £50,000 ; and the “Return to the Man who Puts up the Money”.
This is a very p...
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Ernest Shackleton. Strictly Private. Proposed Trans-Antarctic Expedition, ca. 1913
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James Cummins bookseller
Collection history
This manuscript document has very strong provenance, having been acquired by the vendor directly from the Estate of American writer William Gibson, in 2009. Gibson was writing a piece on Shackleton and possibly acquired the document as part of his research. Gibson never finished the piece, and the rest of Gibson’s archive is held at Harvard Univers...
Administrative / Biographical history
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the ‘Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration’. In 1914, Shackleton embarked on his third, and most famous, expedition to the Antarctic with the ship 'Endurance', planning to cross the A...
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MLMSS 9807
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1DrNXAR9
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1000791
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