Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Lansing, Alfred
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Stated First edition. HC w DJ. PC VG/VG. Two tone blue cloth, silver spine titling, mildewing to boards, map endpapers, unmarked, binding tight. Unclipped DJ (BOMC) edgewear w nicks/chips to top edge, now in Brodart. B/W photo illustrations. Jacket design Wm. Steinel. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.
Synopsis
Ernest Shackleton defined heroism in 1915 when his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in ice and then destroyed on its way to Antarctica. This tense week-by-week, month-by-month reconstruction charts the incredible journey undertaken by his crew of 27 men through 850 miles of the southern Atlantic's heaviest seas.
Reviews
On Dec 27 2005, Jdfsea said:
Shackleton's story of survival set in the Antarctica of the early 20th century. His expedition was to traverse the South Pole, but after their ship the Endurance was crushed by ice, it became a saga of men trying to stay alive in some of the harshest conditions on the planet, and crossing 600 miles of the most dangerous sea on earth in a twenty-two foot boat. It is the only book that ever made me seasick, and it is a true story.
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Details
- Seller
- Refuge Books: Used & Rare
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 230357
- Title
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
- Author
- Lansing, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- HC w DJ
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Stated First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Pages
- 282
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- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- PC
- Partially chipped (dustjacket)
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