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Endurance | Antarctica | Animals | Survival | Bibliography



Books about the Endurance and Sir Ernest Shackleton

Alexander, Caroline. 1998. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Knopf.

Bickel, Lennard. 1982. Shackleton's Forgotten Argonauts. South Melbourne: Macmillan.

Dunnett, Harding, McGregor. 1996. Shackleton's Boat. The Story of the James Caird. Kent, Neville & Harding.

Huntford, Roland. 1986. Shackleton. New York: Atheneum.

Hurley, Frank, Charles Laseron, and Tim Bowden (introduction). 2000 (paperback edition). Antarctic Eyewitness : Charles F. Laseron's "South" With Mawson and Frank Hurley's "Shackleton's Argonauts". HarperCollins.

Lansing, Alfred. 1959. Endurance: The Greatest Adventure Story Ever Told. New York: Carroll & Graf.

Shackleton, Sir Ernest. 1999 (paperback edition). The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.

Shackleton, Sir Ernest. 1998. South: The Endurance Expedition. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.

Worsley, F. A. 1998. Shackleton's Boat Journey. New York: Norton.

 

Books for Children

Alexander, Caroline. 1997. Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar Bound Cat. Harper-Collins.

Armstrong, Jennifer. 1998. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton's Amazing Voyage. Crown Pub.

Armstrong, Jennifer. 2000. Spirit of Endurance: The True Story of the Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic. Crown Pub.

Hooper, Meredith. 1991. A for Antarctica: Facts and Stories from the Frozen South. London: Pan Books Ltd.

Hooper, Meredith. 2001. The Endurance: Shackleton's Perilous Expedition in Antartica. Abbeville Press, Inc.

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition. Clarion Books.

Kostyal, K. M. and Alexandra Shackleton. 1999. Trial by Ice: A Photobiography of Sir Ernest Shackleton. National Geographic Society.

 

Books about Antarctica

Clancy, Robert. 1995. The Mapping of Terra Australis. Macquarie Park, Australia: Universal Press.

Haban, Melanie and Jill Ferris (eds.). 1997-1998 (5th Edition). Field Manual for the United States Antarctic Program. Antarctic Support Associates (ASA) Field Support Staff for the National Science Foundation/Office of Polar Programs (NSF/OPP).

May, John. 1988. The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada.Rubin, Jeff. 1996. Antarctica. Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications.

 

Books about Leadership

Morrell, Margot, and Stephanie Capparell. 2001. Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer. Viking.

Perkins, Dennis N. T., et al. 2000. Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition.


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