Hommage A L’Explorateur Sir Ernest Shackleton Special Issue

Carres d'Art > Carres Hermes Editions Speciales

Published as a tribute to Sir Ernest Shackleton.

• Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) was a British explorer, considered one of the leading figures of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
  • Various colours / 90 x 90 cm / 100% silk

Carre Hermes Paris > Autumn-Winter 2005

This great man and his team never reached the South Pole, perhaps, but they achieved a memorable victory over hunger, cold, fatigue and the rigours of the Antarctic. Why, Sir Ernest, did you put yourself through such hardships, when it was so nice to stay home and soak up the serenity of the family hearth? For a very precise sort of glory: that whereby a pretty woman, nearly a century later, is happy to tie around her neck the story of your exploits.