Shackleton
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: With 48 plates and 37 drawings and maps in text. xvi. 559pp. DJ: price clipped; some moisture damage. Boards: faded spine with minor marks and specks. Light foxing and prelims and book block. Binding remains tight.
Few names in the annals of exploration carry the mythic weight of Ernest Shackleton, and Shackleton by Margery and James Fisher stands as the definitive chronicle of the man who refused to let the Antarctic defeat him. Drawing on exhaustive research, personal accounts, and the evocative drawings of W. E. How — a survivor of the legendary *Endurance* Expedition — this biography reconstructs the full arc of Shackleton's extraordinary life, from his early seafaring ambitions to the near-miraculous survival of his crew after the *Endurance* was crushed by pack ice in 1915. The Fishers bring scholarly rigour and narrative flair to bear on a life that reads like invention yet is grounded in documented fact, illuminating Shackleton's qualities of leadership, resilience, and unshakeable loyalty to his men. The authors present not merely an adventurer's tale, but a study of human endurance at its most profound — a portrait of a man who measured success not in conquest, but in the lives he brought safely home. For anyone captivated by the edges of the known world and the character required to reach them, this volume raises a simple, haunting question: what would *you* have done?
Author: Margery And James Fisher
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Barrie
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: With 48 plates and 37 drawings and maps in text. xvi. 559pp. DJ: price clipped; some moisture damage. Boards: faded spine with minor marks and specks. Light foxing and prelims and book block. Binding remains tight.
Few names in the annals of exploration carry the mythic weight of Ernest Shackleton, and Shackleton by Margery and James Fisher stands as the definitive chronicle of the man who refused to let the Antarctic defeat him. Drawing on exhaustive research, personal accounts, and the evocative drawings of W. E. How — a survivor of the legendary *Endurance* Expedition — this biography reconstructs the full arc of Shackleton's extraordinary life, from his early seafaring ambitions to the near-miraculous survival of his crew after the *Endurance* was crushed by pack ice in 1915. The Fishers bring scholarly rigour and narrative flair to bear on a life that reads like invention yet is grounded in documented fact, illuminating Shackleton's qualities of leadership, resilience, and unshakeable loyalty to his men. The authors present not merely an adventurer's tale, but a study of human endurance at its most profound — a portrait of a man who measured success not in conquest, but in the lives he brought safely home. For anyone captivated by the edges of the known world and the character required to reach them, this volume raises a simple, haunting question: what would *you* have done?