[Paddlewise] The Shackleton Book

	G'Day PaddleWisers, 
	Ralph has lured me out of lurk mode with his unabashed plug for the NY
exhibition on Shackleton [ let us not forget his fantastic crew ]. 
	I have on my desk at my workplace [ a university bookshop] a copy of a
review out of a recent Sydney Morning Herald of the book in question:  "The
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" by Caroline
Alexander, 214pp,  published by Bloomsbury, ISBN 074754123X.
	The reviewer, Tim Bowden, known to Australians as an enthusiastic
Antarctic traveller himself, and former documentary maker for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, begins his review thus:

	 "Mrs Chippy, the ship's cat on Sir Ernest Shackleton's doomed ship
Endurance, inspired this re-examination of the disastrous 1914-16 Antarctic
expedition to be written. Except that on closer investigation, Mrs Chippy
turned out to be Mr Chippy.  In any case the cat did not have enough lives
to survive.  The androgynous feline was shot with the last of the huskies
[but unlike the dogs escaped the indignity of being eaten] after 28 members
of the expedition were forced to abandon ship on to the pack ice in 1915
when the Endurance was crushed and sunk in the Weddell Sea."

	I think Ralph mentioned that  Caroline Alexander is the curator of the NY
exhibition.

	Bowden says in his review: " The combination of her scholarship, Hurley's
[expedition photographer] previously unpublished images and the bedrock of
a ripping yarn, have produced the best account yet of this epic story of
survival." 

	

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