![]() ![]() That Shackleton succeeded in getting all of his men to safety with no lives lost contrasts well with Scott’s heroic but fatal march to the South Pole in 1911-12. Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, was caught in the pack ice and broken up, leaving the entire crew stranded on the ice floe with three lifeboats and no hope of rescue. The striking cover illustration derives from Hurley’s midwinter photograph of Endurance. ![]() It recounts the disastrous attempt that he made to cross Antarctica 1914-1917, illustrated with the evocative photographs of Frank Hurley, the expedition photographer. Shackleton found the recollection of the ordeal extremely painful, and often insisted that he could not go through with it. This account of the Endurance expedition was based on extensive interviews with Shackleton and the diaries of his fellow explorers. Dark blue cloth binding with silvered image of Endurance on the front board. ![]()
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