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"As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"--...
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"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. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
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"Mr. Jarvis's tribute to Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition has had a danger and heroism that are worthy of the original." -The Guardian
In this extraordinary adventure memoir and tie-in to the PBS documentary, Tim Jarvis, one of the world's leading explorers, describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever-and in period clothing and gear-the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
In early 1914, British explorer...
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2012, ©2000
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Retells the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to Antarctica. Shot on location in Antarctica, the film includes interviews with surviving relatives of expedition members, archived audio interviews with original members of the expedition, as well as footage and photographs from the original expedition.
9) South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917 : the photographs of Frank Hurley
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2001
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"The definitive and spellbinding record of Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition, immortalized on film by pioneering photographer Frank Hurley." -- book jacket.
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2023.
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"The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--
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