![]() ![]() Author Caroline Alexander's recounting of the expedition in "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition'' (Knopf, $29.95) spent 15 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list.Īlexander talks about the improbable journey and shows slides of extraordinary photographs taken on the journey by Australian Frank Hurley at the Tattered Cover Book Store in LoDo on Friday. There is, of course, much more to the story. Not a single man is lost on the way, and their much-loved leader becomes a legend among British explorers before dying at the age of 47 - on another trip to the Antarctic. The basics: Twenty-eight men sail to Antarctica in 1914, their ship is crushed by monstrous hunks of ice, and they spend close to the next two years getting back to civilization across some of the world's most treacherous waters. If it hadn't happened, it would be the greatest piece of adventure fiction ever written. "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition'' ![]()
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