Book cover of South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917

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1 author picked South with Endurance as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Antarctica is the one continent I have never taken a photograph in. It has barely changed in the past 100 years, but Hurley’s images still take me to an unknown world and how people have struggled to survive there.

I love the way he can capture the majesty of a landscape that is mostly just one colour and how his photographs give a sense of the puny humans grappling with the harshness of the environment.

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