Adventures of the Blackgang

Player’s Cigarettes “Polar Exploration”
A series of 25 cards issued in 1914
#13 The Nimrod, Shackleton’s expedition 1907-09;
picking up the Northern Party, February 4th 1909

#16 The Northern Party of Shackleton’s expedition at the Magnetic South Pole, January 16th 1909

#24 Lieutenant, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton C.V.O

- Antarctic Attitude -

Crew member W. F. Howard on board RRS Discovery

caption: “at Adeli (sic) Land Dec 28th 1931”

set:
British Australian & New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1930-1931
(53 photos)

yama-bato:

Herbert Ponting

http://www.list.co.uk/article/22450-the-heart-of-the-great-alone-scott-shackleton-and-antarctic-photography/

book-aesthete:

The South Polar Times
Ernest Shackleton
Vol. 3 Only, NUMBER 254 OF 350 COPIES, edited by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, printed in blue and red, half-title, chromolithographed plates and illustrations, publisher’s cloth gilt, original colour-printed view on upper cover, g.e., head of spine slightly frayed [Taurus Collection 42; Spence 1094], 4to, Smith, Elder, 1914

From Abe Books: “The contents of the 3 volumes are exact reproductions of “South Polar Times,” a lively and unique journal which was originally issued during the expeditions and written on its only typewriter. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922), who was a third officer aboard the Discovery, created and edited the monthly journal to entertain himself and the crew during the long months of isolation and to document the lives and work of the small colony.

Volumes I & II cover the “British National Antarctic Expedition,” generally known as the “Discovery Expedition,” Vol. III recounts parts of the “Terra Nove Expedition,” officially known as the “British Antarctic Expedition 1910.”

Interior image of Vol. 3 from Abe Books:

(via book-aesthete-blog)