Books on Shackleton’s bookshelf:
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Seven short plays by Lady Gregory
- Perch of the devil by Getrude Atherton
- Pip by Ian Hey
- Plays: pleasant and unpleasant, Vol 2 Pleasant by G B Shaw
- Almayer’s folly by Joseph Conrad
- Dr Brewer’s readers handbook
- The Brassbounder by David Bone
- The case of Miss Elliott by Emmuska Orczy
- Raffles by EW Hornung
- The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
- Pros and cons: a newspaper reader’s and debater’s guide to the leading controversies of the day by JB Askew
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Woman’s view by Herbert Flowerdew
- Thou Fool by JJ Bell
- The Message of Fate by Louis Tracy
- The Barrier by Rex Beach
- Manual of English Grammar and Composition by Nesfield
- A book of light verse
- Oddsfish by Robert Hugh Benson
- Poetical works of Shelley
- Monsieur de Rochefort by H De Vere Stacpoole
- Voyage of the Vega by Nordenskjold
- The threshold of the unknown region by Clements Markham
- Cassell’s book of quotations by W Gurney Benham
- The concise Oxford dictionary
- Chambers biographical dictionary
- Cassell’s new German-English English-German dictionary
- Chambers 20th Century dictionary
- The northwest passage by Roald Amundsen
- The voyage of the Fox in Arctic seas by McClintock
- Whitaker’s almanac
- World’s end by Amelie Rives
- Potash and perlmutter by Montague Glass
- Round the horn before the mast by A Basil Lubbock
- The witness for the defence by AEW Mason
- Five years of my life by Alfred Dreyfuss
- The morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J Locke
- The rescue of Greely by Commander Winfield Scott Schley
- United States Grinnell Expedition by Dr Kane
- Three years of Arctic service by Greely
- Voyage to the Polar Sea by Nares
- Journal of HMS Enterprise by Collinson
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