{"product_id":"the-endurance-shackletons-legendary-antarctic-expedition-9780375404030","title":"The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History's landmark exhibition on Shackleton's journey, \u003cb\u003eThe Endurance\u003c\/b\u003e thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375404030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 8.52w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Awards - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/1998 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/05\/1998 pg. 63\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1998 pg. 1423\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1998 pg. 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/27\/1998 pg. 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist Ed Choice Adu Bk YA's\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1999 pg. 780\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1998 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1999 pg. 1400\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/1999 pg. 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1998 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eALA Best Books Young Adults\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2000 pg. 1339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2001 pg. 1455\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 1085\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010 pg. 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e34754 \/ Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.6 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Caroline Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636677767324,"sku":"9780375404030","price":32.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_66e7b934-577b-46ff-a8a5-3088f86db2d4.jpg?v=1603842621","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-endurance-shackletons-legendary-antarctic-expedition-9780375404030","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}