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Shackleton

Roland Huntford
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The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole.
Genres: BiographyNonfictionHistoryAdventureTravelNatureAutobiographyScienceHistoricalOutdoors
800 Pages

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