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Shackleton's boat journey / F. A. Worsley ; narrative introduction by Sir Edmund Hilary

by F. Worsley, Edmund Hillary

This memoir recounts the 1914–1915 Antarctic expedition during which the ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice. It details the crew's survival on drifting ice floes and the subsequent 800-mile open-boat journey to South Georgia to seek rescue.

Accession 6250 ISBN 0393303764 Publisher W. W. Norton & Co.
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