[SHIRASE (NOBU] Nankyoku-Tanken, FIRST EDITION, text in Japanese, 4 leaves of photographic illustrations (recto and verso), numerous photographic illustrations in the text, one folding colour-printed map, some toning and light spotting, map off-set onto facing page, publisher's pictorial boards (illustrating penguins on the ice), joints frayed, soiling [Rosove 381.A1; Ross 1.4.1], 8vo, Tokyo, 21 January 1913

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VERY RARE. This is the first appearance of Expedition leader Shirase's account, pre-dating the official account which did not appear until later in the same year.

Shirase was "the first non-European team to explore Antarctica, his "dash patrol" journey past 80 deg south was one of only four groups to have done so at that time. The expedition was carried out on a tiny budget (for such endeavours), none of those involved had any previous polar experience... [but] there were no fatalities" (Cool Antarctica, website). In November 1910 Shirase left Tokyo on the small wooden schooner Kainan Maru with a crew of 26 men and 27 Siberian sled dogs, the beginning of his heroic but ultimately failed expedition to raise the Japanese flag at the Pole. His ship was the smallest to sail to Antarctica at the time, half the size of Amundsen's Fram and a third the size of Scott's Terra Nova. After attempts to reach the Pole over two seasons "Shirase was treated like a hero on his return to Japan. He was soon forgotten however" (Cool Antarctica).

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