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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Lansing, Alfred
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1885283008
- ISBN 13
- 9781885283009
- Seller
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About This Item
Purdys, NY: Adventure Library, 1994 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Introduction by Piers Paul Read. Half buckram binding over illustrated paper boards, no jacket as issued. Rubbing to the labels on the spine, a few sporadic soil spots on the boards, pages ix-x creased vertically. Text clean. No. 1 in the Adventure Library catalog, sold by subscription with a modest print runs. 30 titles were published between 1994 and 2003..
Synopsis
Ernest Shackleton defined heroism in 1915 when his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in ice and then destroyed on its way to Antarctica. This tense week-by-week, month-by-month reconstruction charts the incredible journey undertaken by his crew of 27 men through 850 miles of the southern Atlantic's heaviest seas.
Reviews
On Dec 27 2005, Jdfsea said:
Shackleton's story of survival set in the Antarctica of the early 20th century. His expedition was to traverse the South Pole, but after their ship the Endurance was crushed by ice, it became a saga of men trying to stay alive in some of the harshest conditions on the planet, and crossing 600 miles of the most dangerous sea on earth in a twenty-two foot boat. It is the only book that ever made me seasick, and it is a true story.
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- Bookseller
- Else Fine Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004228
- Title
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Author
- Lansing, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1885283008
- ISBN 13
- 9781885283009
- Publisher
- Adventure Library
- Place of Publication
- Purdys, NY
- Date Published
- 1994
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