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The Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (G K Hall Large Print
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The Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (G K Hall Large Print Nonfiction Series) Hardcover - 1999

by Alexander, Caroline


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In August 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail aboard the Endurance bound for the South Atlantic - their goal to be the first explorers ever to cross Antarctica. Weaving a treacherous path through the icy Weddell Sea, they came within eighty miles of their destination when the ship became trapped in the ice pack. For the next ten months they waited for the ice to break, but it never did, instead crushing the Endurance in its flows, leaving the crew stranded. With remarkable unpublished photographs of Frank Hurley.

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In August 1914, 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. Alexander gives a riveting account of the expedition, and she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer hired to create a visual record of the adventure. The original glass plate negatives of these remarkable images were stored in hermetically scaled canisters that miraculously 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.

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  • Title The Endurance Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (G K Hall Large Print Nonfiction Series)
  • Author Alexander, Caroline
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Large Print Edit
  • Pages 386
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher G K Hall & Co, Thorndike, Maine, U.S.A.
  • Date June 1999
  • ISBN 9780783886435
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