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Endurance : the greatest adventure story ever told

Author: Alfred Lansing; Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir; Frank Hurley
Publisher: New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers, [2000, ©1959]
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Account of British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic adventure to the South Atlantic and the first crossing of the Antarctic continent. Half a continent away from its intended base, the ship Endurance was crushed in the ice. For five months, Shackleton and his men were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alfred Lansing; Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir; Frank Hurley
ISBN: 0786708425 9780786708420
OCLC Number: 45501122
Notes: "First edition, 1986; second edition, 1999; This illustrated edition jointly published in the United States by Carroll & Graf and in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000"--P. [vi].
Description: v, 277 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Other Titles: Shackleton's incredible voyage to the Antarctic
Responsibility: by Alfred Lansing ; photography by Frank Hurley.

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Lavishly illustrated with Frank Hurley's spectacular photos of the 1914 Shackleton expedition to Antarctica, this deluxe edition chronicles "one of the most harrowing survival stories of all time"  Read more...

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