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Dreamer

Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834

by Richard Holmes


Contretemps at Prince’s Gate

The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography

by Linda Merrill


Journey to the End of the Night

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

Shackleton

by Roland Huntford

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

by Francis Spufford

South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage

by Ernest Shackleton

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure

by F.A. Worsley, with a preface by Patrick O'Brian

Shackleton's Boat Journey

by F.A. Worsley

South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919)

a film by Frank Hurley

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals

by Robert Falcon Scott, with a new introduction by Beryl Bainbridge

Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat

by Caroline Alexander

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