This hardcover book is titled "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic" and it was written by Alfred Lansing. It is a 2002 reprint of the original book that was published in 1959. As you can see the original dust jacket is intact, although somewhat worn on the edges. However the protective cover has done its job well and the book inside is fine.

This fascinating book provides reading pleasure for adventure and exploration lovers, as well as those who admire what men can accomplish under terrible circumstances.

In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.

Drawing upon historical sources, Alfred Lansing gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition, one of history's greatest epics of survival. The book includes the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure covered it from beginning to end. Together, the text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership.

The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed cannisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. Finally Hurley was forced to abandon his professional equipment; he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film.

The book contains reproductions of original photographs taken by the famed photographer, Frank Hurley, along with wonderfully written historical details, drawn from diaries, records, newspaper accounts and post-journey interviews.

There are no missing, damaged or torn pages.

Here is the specific information for the book:

ISBN 029782919X
Number Of Pages: 278 pages
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2002, reprint of 1959 original
Language: English
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Orion Publishing Group
Typeset by Deltatype Ltd. Birkenhead, Merseyside
Printed in Italy by Printer Trento, S. r.L.
Illustrated: Yes
Weight: 2 pounds 2 ounces
Height: 8 and 1/2 inches
Width: 7 inches

This item is sold from a vintage boutique in Bradenton, FL.