The Endurance : : Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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Call Number: 919.89 Al, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / General / Alexander, Caroline
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"In association with the American Museum of Natural History."
The heroic age -- South -- The breakup -- Patience camp -- Into the boats -- The voyage of the James Caird -- South Georgia Island -- Elephant Island -- "To my comrades."
Provides an account of the Shackleton expedition of 1914, during which explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven set out to cross the Antarctic continent on foot, only to have their ship, Endurance, break up eighty-five miles short of their destination, leaving them stranded for close to two years. Includes a photographic record of the adventure.

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Shackleton: Best. Hero. Ever. submitted by Sara W on June 20, 2011, 11:38pm Alexander approaches the story chronologically, providing context for the expedition by summarizing previous Antarctic explorations and the international competition surrounding them. For the story of the Endurance, Alexander draws material from the diaries, letters and later remembrances of the crew. Photographs and quotations punctuate many of the anecdotes of life aboard the Endurance, as well as the freezing hell endured after its’ sinking.

The book makes great use of the existing photographs of the ordeal and they do quite a lot to make these unbelievable circumstances more real to the reader. The ship’s photographer captured impossible, fascinating images, such as the enormous wooden Endurance being cracked like a bundle of twigs by mere shifts in the Antarctic ice.