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Name: Ernest Shackleton
Author: George Plimpton

Writer and media personality George Plimpton not only tells Shackleton's story, but recounts his own recent adventure following Shackleton's footsteps through the bleak, beautiful seas, and islands at the bottom of the world.

First publish date: 2003

Authors: George Plimpton

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