Mensun Bound gave a lecture followed by a book signing of The Ship Beneath the Ice – The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. The event occurred onboard the Wavertree, an old square rigger ...

I recently read a book about Shackleton’s Antarctic adventure ... He gathered a top crew to join the expedition, collected the appropriate funds to purchase the ship named ‘Endurance’ and supply all ...

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In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers. By Sadie Stein Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his ...

I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... with everything I needed for the expedition. We had problems right away. It was so incredibly cold; the equipment we brought with us wouldn ...

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