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Legendary Expedition represents the most comprehensive exhibition of Frank Hurley's work from the Endurance expedition ever mounted. All of the photographic prints, both for the exhibition and for this book, were produced by Barbara and Michael Gray at their studio near Bath. Michael Gray is the curator of the National Trust, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, England.

Hurley filming from the mast

“Hurley is a warrior with his camera & would go anywhere or do anything to get a picture.” (Greenstreet, letter to his father)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Caroline Alexander, who has written for The New Yorker, Granta, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic, among other publications, is the author of four previous books. She is the curator of Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Expedition, an exhibition that will open at the American Museum of Natural History in March 1999. She lives on a farm in New Hampshire.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Copyright © 1998 by Caroline Alexander

Map copyright © 1998 NG Maps/National Geographic Image Collection

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-55594-6

LC 98-87214

Photographs on the following pages are reproduced with the permission of the picture library of the

Royal Geographical Society, London: opening, half title, frontispiece, epigraph, 2, 13, 14, 17, 20, 24, 25,

26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 43, 45 (both), 46, 47, 48, 50, 51 (both), 52 (top), 54, 55

(both), 58, 61, 63, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78 (both), 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 92, 94,

96, 97, 98, 100 (both), 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 115, 120, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132,

133, 134 (right), 135, 136, 137 (both), 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 163, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 180, 183,

184, 186, 191, 203, 210. Photographs copyright © 1998 by the Royal Geographical Society.

Photograph on page 135 is reproduced with the permission of the Mitchell Library, State Library of

New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Other Books By This Author

Title Page

Chapter 1 - The Heroic Age

Chapter 2 - South

Chapter 3 - The Breakup

Chapter 4 - Patience Camp

Chapter 5 - Into the Boats

Chapter 6 - The Voyage of the James Caird

Chapter 7 - South Georgia Island

Chapter 8 - Elephant Island

Chapter 9 - “To My Comrades”

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright