Shackleton by Roland Huntford (1998, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherHachette Books
ISBN-100786705442
ISBN-139780786705443
eBay Product ID (ePID)744674

Product Key Features

Book TitleShackleton
Number of Pages800 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPolar Regions, Adventurers & Explorers
Publication Year1998
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorRoland Huntford
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight38.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-004388
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal919.8/904
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole., In 1915, while the Great War embroiled Europe, the world waited for news of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's latest expedition but had given him up for lost. Shackleton's near-miraculous survival for nine months on the ice-packed Antarctic seas -- capped with an open-boat journey across more than 700 miles of the most dangerous weather in the South Atlantic -- has made him synonymous with courage and endurance. Roland Huntford, acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, from his Anglo-Irish childhood to his rivalry with Scott and Amundsen in the quest for the pole. Although Shackleton was knighted for having reached "Farthest South," a hundred miles from his goal, in 1909, he was as much a social adventurer as an explorer, not to mention an inveterate womanizer and dubious financier. Whatever the mix of hero and rogue in his character, as one of his colleagues summed him up, "When you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberG875.S5H86 1998

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