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01.09.09

Tending Sir Ernest´s Legacy: An Interview with Alexandra Shackleton

In this intimate interview, hear insights about Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance voyage as only a devoted granddaughter can have them.

Posted 03.15.2002 at 4:05 pm 0 Comments

In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and twenty-seven men set forth on a south polar expedition, only to become trapped in pack ice and stranded for nearly two years in one of the most inhospitable regions of Earth. Shackleton's miraculous escape with his entire crew from certain death in the arctic unfolds in unprecedented detail on Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance, a two-hour documentary on NOVA, airing Tuesday, March 26, 2002, from 8 to 10 PM ET on PBS.

Sir Ernest could do far worse than have as his only granddaughter the

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