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Title: South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 by Frank Hurley ISBN: 0-7432-2292-X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I was fortunate that I could follow Shakelton on T.V. while reading and viewing these excellent pictures. This book is outstanding and I would urge anyone interested in either Shakelton or photography to get it. I could not help but think that every member of this expedition had story to tell. We have heard only a few. Amazing the limits of human endurance and to think that they had a photographer with them who realized what he was filming, and did so for all of us to see.To Hurley was far ahead of his time, and I am inclined to think that Ansel Adams had probably learned from Mr. Hurley.
Rating: 5
Summary: A real treasure
Comment: This is the most defenitive retelling of Shackleton's adventure in pictures. Frank Hurley was an exceptional photographer who just happened to take pictures of a journey that without them would be simply unbelievable. Any Hurley's picture of the Endurance expedition is a treasure, and in this book are all of them!
Rating: 5
Summary: You've read the book(s) now see the film
Comment: Frank Hurley's book is a mastepiece of photographic art. Having read many Antarctic books already, particularly "South" the story of the endurance expedition, I devoured this book to see the whole story in detail.
The book is a work of technical genius and without artistic equal among work of that era, particularly when you realise what awful conditions he worked under.
The notes accompanying the pictures relate the epic tale in only slightly less detail than the South book, but you still fully appreciate the efforts which went into it's production.
Other members of the crew could have been more resentful of Hurley, due to the time he spent in his darkroon (he was not part of the ship's crew, therefore was not obliged to stand watch) and shooting film. Instead they regarded him with great respect, especially the numerous occasions he risked his life for the best shots. The true measure of the respect he engendered from the crew is the book itself. When the ship went down and the crew faced an uncertain future, all personal possesions bar a few photos and each man's personal journal were lost. Shackleton still insisted that many heavy glass plates be preserved dragged across the ice and sailed to South Georgia via Elephant Island. Still more were smashed by Hurley, once prints were taken (see "Green Collection" in Scott Polar research Library Cambridge UK) as he could not bear them to be left behind.
This book would form an essential addition to any Antarctic library. The faces all became attached to the names I already knew so well, seeing them at the start of the voyage then lost and forlorn next to the upturned boat on Elephant Island tells it's own harrowing story.
This bleak tale is uplifted by the magnificent images, which match the joy felt by all when Shackleton, "The Boss", returned to collect them safe and well. Even as a first foray into Antarctic literature.
(NB earlier reviewer incorrectly stated that Shackleton went back to UK after South Georgia returning to rescue the crew from Elephant Island. In fact He could not rest knowing the men expected his return and after only a few days rest, when his crew from the "James Caird" were ill in bed he took a whaler and eventually got the men safely off the Island several weeks later, after two unsuccessful attempts.)
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Title: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing ISBN: 078670621X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Ernest Shackleton ISBN: 0786705973 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander, Frank Hurley ISBN: 0375404031 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title:South - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition ASIN: 6305943052 Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.99 |
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Title:Shackleton - The Greatest Survival Story of All Time (3-Disc Collector's Edition) ASIN: B000063TON Publisher: A & E Home Video Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.99 |
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