South The Endurance Expedition

Name: South The Endurance Expedition
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ISBN: 9780142437797

ISBN-10: 0142437794

ISBN-13: 9780142437797

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ernest Shackleton, Fergus Fleming, Frank Hurley

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Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackletons excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurancehas long captured the public imagination. Southis his own first-hand account of this epic adventure. As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice. Alone in the worlds most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.07" wide x 7.70" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Ernest Shackleton (18741922) was a junior officer under Robert Falcon Scott during the 19011904 expedition to the South Pole. His expedition on the whaler Nimrodin 1907 earned him a knighthood.Fergus Fleming is the author of Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, and Barrows Boys.