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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Alexander, Caroline | HC | VeryGood
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 0375404031
- Book Title
- Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.4 in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Topic
- Polar Regions, Special Interest / Adventure, Individual Photographers / General, Adventurers & Explorers, Expeditions & Discoveries
- Item Weight
- 33.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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 upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition--one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. 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. Published in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History's landmark exhibition on Shackleton's journey, The Endurance thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375404031
ISBN-13
9780375404030
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212954
Product Key Features
Book Title
Endurance : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Polar Regions, Special Interest / Adventure, Individual Photographers / General, Adventurers & Explorers, Expeditions & Discoveries
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
33.3 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
98-087214
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
919.8/9/04
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Lc Classification Number
G850
Copyright Date
1998
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