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Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Title:
Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Author:
Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-
ISBN:
9780375810497
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown, 2000, c1998.
Physical Description:
134 p. [pap] : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: c1998.
Abstract:
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice andstormy seas to reach inhabited land.