South With Endurance - Hardcover

Tamiko Rex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932302042 ISBN 13: 9781932302042

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2001

Synopsis

THE DEFINITIVE AND SPELLBINDING RECORD OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, IMMORTALIZED ON FILM BY PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER FRANK HURLEY Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917 was one of the great feats of human endurance -- one vividly captured in the powerful and dramatic pictures taken by Frank Hurley, the expedition's official photographer. These images, appearing together here for the first time in print, constitute an amazing body of photojournalism created under the most adverse circumstances imaginable. As this book reveals, however, they are far more than visual reportage; they also are images of great artistry that capture the life-and-death drama that was played out against an arctic landscape of magnificent and terrible beauty. The story told here through Frank Hurley's lens began in the summer of 1914, when Shackleton and his crew set sail from England with the intention of being the first to cross Antarctica from one coast to the other, ping through the South Pole on the way. After five months they reached the zing Weddell Sea and were within sight of land when the Endurance became trapped in the ice pack. Nine months later, the was finally crushed, leaving the crew stranded on drifting ice floes at the end of the earth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932302042
• ISBN 13: 9781932302042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1