p. 72-73: While on the subject of salvage [from the dying Endurance], I might add that I recovered the volumes of the encyclopaedia from the chief’s cabin and a large part of my own personal library, as well as several packs of cards. Many a day we had cause to bless the fact. What tedious hours were whiled away in reading; what wonderful and purely imaginary fortunes changed hands at poker patience.
Shackleton’s Argonauts: A Saga of the Antarctic Icepacks.
Hurley, Frank. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1948.
- 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Shackleton on Endurance).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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South with Endurance: Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, the Photographs of Frank Hurley.
Hurley, Frank. London: Bloomsbury, 2001.
- 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Shackleton on Endurance).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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This book has a wider focus than the title implies, including more material on Hurley’s photographic career than his Antarctic photographs. But it covers the Antarctic work well, from archives of RGS, the State Library of New South Wales, and of SPRI, Cambridge.
The Diaries of Frank Hurley, 1912-1941.
Hurley, Frank. Edited by Robert Dixon and Christopher Lee. London: Anthem Press, 2011. P. 1-58.
- 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Shackleton on Endurance).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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These diaries cover most of Hurley’s life, but the following notes are only from his Antarctic experience with Shackleton.