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SHACKLETON by Ranulph Fiennes (Michal Joseph, R350)

The wreck of Shackleton’s polar vessel Endurance was discovered recently at the bottom of the icy Southern Ocean. So reaching for the life of Ernest Shackleton (1874 to 1922), the ‘boss’ of that ill-fated transAntarctic expedition, is particularly appropriate. Equally appropriately, it is written by the most famous British explorer of today, Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

Intriguingly, Fiennes

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