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The endurance Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition

An unflinching account of Shackleton's expeditio--one of history's greatest epics of survival.

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  • "An unflinching account of Shackleton's expeditio--one of history's greatest epics of survival."@en
  • "Details how twenty-eight men battled to return to civilization after their ship sank near the South Pole."
  • "Caroline Alexander recounts Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition to cross Antarctica and the harrowing fight to survive for twenty months in freezing Antarctic conditions."
  • "In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.... The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed cannisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. Finally Hurley was forced to abandon his professional equipment; he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film. -Dust jacket."

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