![]() ![]() ![]() 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 in their ship, Endurance, 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. Including never-before published photographs. ![]() Book Synopsis NATIONAL BEST SELLER - A riveting account of Shackletons famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration-perhaps the greatest of them all-the shipwreck that stranded the crew for twenty months. About the Book Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackletons 1914 expedition to Antarctica presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer Frank Hurley, whose stunning visual record of the ordeal was-amazingly-preserved. ![]()
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