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Author:

Lansing, Alfred.

Title:

Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage / Alfred Lansing ; introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Edition:

100th anniversary edition.

Publisher:

Basic Booksa member of the Perseus Books Group,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxi, 357 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Shackleton, Ernest Henry,--Sir,--1874-1922--Travel--Antarctica.
Endurance (Ship)
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition--(1914-1917)
Antarctica--British.--British.

Notes:

"First published by Carroll & Graf in 1986. Published by arrangement with Mrs Alfred Lansing"-- Title page verso.

Summary:

"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice.".

ISBN:

0465058787
9780465058785

LCCN:

2014005005

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