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The Endurance : Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition / Caroline Alexander ; in association with the American Museum of Natural History.
Van Pelt Library G850 1914 S5 A44 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Caroline, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922--Travel--Antarctica.
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry.
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.
- Travel.
- Antarctica.
- Endurance (Ship).
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917).
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
- Antarctica--Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Alexander, Caroline, 1956- (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Eisenpreis, Alfred (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 1998.
- Summary:
- Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer Frank Hurley, whose stunning visual record of the ordeal was--amazingly--preserved. "National Geographic" feature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "With the astonishing unpublished photographs of Frank Hurley"--Jacket.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription: "To Alfred Eisenpreis, with best wishes, Caroline Alexander ... Nov. 18, 1998".
- ISBN:
- 0375404031 :
- OCLC:
- 40248681
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