Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

Name: Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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ISBN: 9780375404030

ISBN-10: 0375404031

ISBN-13: 9780375404030

Edition: 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Caroline Alexander, Frank Hurley

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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. Drawing…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/3/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 8.50" wide x 9.44" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Caroline Alexander is the author of three books-- One Dry Season: In the Footsteps of Mary Kingsley; The Way to Xanadu; and Battle's End: A Seminal Football Team Revisited --all published by Knopf. She lives in New Hampshire.