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The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Paperback)
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The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Paperback)
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List price R614
Loot Price R545
Discovery Miles 5 450
You Save R69 (11%)
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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 was never before 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 canisters 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; thereafter
he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle
with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film.
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