This volume offers accounts of two of the 19th-century expeditions that took place in the so-called "heroic era" of Antarctic exploration. The first is Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. The other is Ernest Shackleton's unsuccessful attempt to cross the Antarctic continent from 1914-16 and the extraordinary survival of his entire party after the expedition's ship, Endurance, was crushed and sunk in the pack ice. Chronicled in black-and-white images by the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, these two narratives are combined within this double volume. There is also an introduction by journalist and historian Tim Bowden.
- ISBN13 9781841582207
- Publish Date 11 November 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 June 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Birlinn Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 306
- Language English