Volume 46, Number 10 · June 10, 1999
Journey to the End of the Night
By Jonathan Raban
OTHER WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS REVIEW
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander. Published in association with the American Museum of Natural History, New York, where Caroline Alexander has co-curated an exhibition that includes the James Caird and more than 150 of Frank Hurley's photographs: "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition," April 10-October 11, 1999.
Knopf, 212 pp., $29.95
Shackleton
by Roland Huntford
Carroll and Graf, 774 pp., $18.95 (paper)
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
by Francis Spufford
St. Martin's, 372 pp., $26.95
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
by Ernest Shackleton
Carroll and Graf, 380 pp., $13.95 (paper)
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
by F.A. Worsley, with a preface by Patrick O'Brian
Norton, 310 pp., $25.95
Shackleton's Boat Journey
by F.A. Worsley
Norton, 220 pp., $13.00 (paper)
South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919)
a film by Frank Hurley
Milestone, $29.95
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
Carroll and Graf, 282 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals
by Robert Falcon Scott, with a new introduction by Beryl Bainbridge
Carroll and Graf, 442 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat
by Caroline Alexander
HarperPerennial, 148 pp., $11.00 (paper)
In early September 1916, there was no more common sight in England than that of postboys, pedaling off to cottages and farms to deliver the telegrams that would break hearts. The Battle of the Somme was in full swing. Three months had passed since the Battle of Jutland, with its long columns of names of men lost at sea. The previous two years had been punctuated by the bloodbaths of Vimy Ridge, Verdun, Ypres, and the Marne, and people had grown numbly used to the idea that young men were the necessary fuel for the thirsty machinery of modern war.
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