The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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		The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
		The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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 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. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.

Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition--one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership.

The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed cannisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. Finally Hurley was forced to abandon his professional equipment; he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film.

Published in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History's landmark exhibition on Shackleton's journey, The Endurance thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all.

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DO NOT BUY the Kindle version of this book. Fatally flawed Kindle production: "Shackle-ton" appears repeatedly. Words (like a bold face "South") appear for no reason in the middle of sentences. Sentences are broken and never completed, or oddly so: "Huge icicles that hung like curtains at the cave mouth provided above the beach and returned with fledgling albatrosses... ." "In turn, the head of the bay could be reached only & bring home the food Vincent lays down by the fire and smoks ... ." "Suddenly, Crean broke through what turned out to be An hour later they stood ..." Pictures are pixelated, some enlarged to the point that the image is not recognizable. Great story, but if you want this version, buy the real book. Better yet, buy Alfred Lansing's great version Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

Before I read Caroline Alexander's gripping story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition, I thought the greatest story about survival at sea was Nordhoff and Hall's Men Against the Sea, the story of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat in 1789 by the HMS Bounty mutineers. But compared to the Bounty crew, the Endurance's men had an incredibly more difficult and dangerous experience, as the author vividly describes. In addition to the text, crewman Frank Hurley's remarkable photography really brings the story to life.

Note: I referred to the Bounty mutiny in my review. Caroline Alexander, the author of The Endurance, also wrote The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, a book I've also read and can highly recommend.

Shackleton and his men are one of my favorite TRUE stories of bravery and endurance. First, it was fortunate that the photographer was allowed to preserve some of his plates of the ship on the ice. Second, I read recently that within this last decade some people replicated the search party gong to find the Russian fishing camp to get help for the rest of the men. These recent heroes were outfitted in the garb of skiers today with snowshoes and the best in warm clothing and, as I recall, Shackleton's men made it faster, because it was a matter of life or death. I many have heard it incorrectly, but I don't think so. It makes a good story.

The Endurance is simply excellently told, and with captivating photography. I was stunned the first time I read it ... and, it has been a re-read every year, twice a year (at least once per hot summer and every cold January) since that first page turner. What a company of men, led by a resolute and ultimately fair individual, can do is astonishing ... and inspires hope (and humility). You will wonder at the predicament and cringe at the odds ...and then marvel at what ... and how ... they overcome them. Then, suffer right along with those left on the island ...
The book chronicles the 'refuse to quit on even one man' efforts of Shackleton, who struggled against unimaginable hardships in the most inhospitable place on earth, in an effort to deliver His men to safety ... from what must surely be an unavoidable fate.
The journey will astound you ... enthrall you ... have you re-reading pages to try to appreciate the magnitude of the circumstance ... and then have you shaking your head in awe. These men WERE made of sterner stuff.
Shackleton was not a perfect man, but ... a perfect hero for that very reason. Our world could use more like him.

I encourage you to try this book ... it will change your outlook ... on many things.
Q.

This is an excellent photo and text over-view of the Endurance journey and the associated drama that followed its sinking. The photos are the key to this version of the story, giving something to the epic that words alone cannot give. I have long been fascinated by the Endurance expedition and this book is a "must have" to complete any collection of, or visit to, this story. The fusion of multiple versions of the story gathered from many different persons and the compilation of various types of data and historic sources also make this book a unique and special read. Though space and publishing would not allow inclusion of all available photos, one flaw might be that the author was not able to include more photos. I found this to be a great addtion to a Shackleton/Endurance collection.

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