South by Frank Hurley, Fergus Fleming, Ernest Shackleton

15 hours, 48 minutes first pub 1919 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent fr...

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adventurous 93%
informative 73%
inspiring 40%
tense 40%
challenging 13%
hopeful 13%
reflective 13%

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medium 42%

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