Escape from the ice : Shackleton and the Endurance /
by Connie and Peter Roop ; illustrated by Bob Doucet.
- New York : Scholastic, c2001.
- 48 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cm.
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Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
0439206405 (pbk.)
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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 --Travel--Juvenile literature. Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.