- British, Discovery and exploration, Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917), Travel
"One of the most harrowing survival stories of all time"—Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect StormVeteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 375
- Publisher
- W. Heinemann, Stackpole Books, IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 116
- Language
- lad, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781411429536
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“I HAD decided to leave South Georgia about December 5, and in the intervals of final preparation scanned again the plans for the voyage to winter quarters.”
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