"...this is an excellent and highly recommended book."

The Mariner's Mirror - The International Quarterly Journal of the Society For Nautical Research - Volume 109:4

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"The photos are the glory of the book. Their lack of colour gives them a stark beauty, worthy of the cruel grandeur of Antarctica. They tend to overshadow the text, but the text tells an amazing and improbable story which merits retelling even though most of us know it in outline."

Edward James - Historical Novels Review

Following books of the same title by Frank Worsley, Alfred Lansing, Bryce and Wood, one might think there is very little new to be said about Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition. However, drawing extensively on journals by crew members, and other previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander recounts this truly remarkable story of human courage and ingenuity in the face of daunting odds: a heroic adventure which sadly ended in failure. She includes 170 astonishing photos taken by Frank Hurley, bleak images of the cold, savage beauty of the Antarctic ice, a visual record of the ship, the men and their dogs, which has never before been fully published.

Norfolk Family History Society - 'The Ancestor' magazine

The Antarctic buff will have already purchased this book when first published but for those
brought to Shackleton by the discovery of the Endurance this is as good a book as you can get.
Hurley’s photographs, all 140 of them, are individual works of art at a time when photography
under harsh conditions was embryonic.

Robert Bartlett

This is a wonderful book which anyone with an interest in exploration of Antarctica, not least the quite mesmerizing story of Ernest Shackleton, should read.

Jon Sandison

Knowing something of Antarctica and having later revisited, researched and written about that incredible edifice of ice, storm and calm, I can suggest no finer account of this last great endeavor of the heroic age of polar exploration than Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance.

The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord, XVIII, No. 2 (Spring 2018) - reviewed by Lisle A. Rose Edmonds, Washington

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Sea Breezes, July 2018

The tale of crossing the Island, after a journey in a rowing boat that involved tackling Cape Horn, is a story in itself, and one that author Caroline Alexander tackles both engagingly and sensitively. Alexander’s writing style is clear, concise, but never dull. It moves at a good pace, so there is never an opportunity to stop and put the kettle on. And that would be good enough.

But the story of Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition rightfully deserves an accomplished recounter, and this book deserves a place on the bookshelves of anyone interested in that post-Victorian expedition era.

Splendid in every way, and first-class value.

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On: Yorkshire magazine - reviewed by Rich Barnett

A thrilling account of one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration.

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Julian Stockwin - Action-adventure historical fiction

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