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TWO COMPELLING TAKES ON SHACKLETON'S ADVENTURE
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[A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.]
Correction: Because of a reporting error, Sunday's story on two TV
productions about Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition
misidentified the director of tonight's "Nova" documentary, which
airs at 9 on Channel 2. It was directed by George Butler and
produced by Sarah Holt and Kelly Tyler.
Because of an editing error, the same story omitted the times
that the A&E miniseries "Shackleton" will air. It will premiere Apr...
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Shackleton's Successful Failure; Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic Have Made the Explorer a Multimedia Star
The Washington Post
; It's probably fair to say that adventurer Ernest Shackleton's attempt to cross the 2,000-mile Antarctic continent in 1914 was a successful failure. But it's also a terrific story of leadership, perseverance and survival -- so good, in fact, that both PBS and A&E are telling it this spring, and two
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Explorer follows footsteps of his hero Shackleton.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Inspired by the exploits of Sir Ernest Shackleton, a Staffordshire man is preparing to follow in the footsteps of the great explorer by crossing the Antarctic island of South Georgia. Jonathan Chastney will retrace Shackleton's heroic steps across ice-bound peaks and glaciers in the same harsh
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TWO COMPELLING TAKES ON SHACKLETON'S ADVENTURE
The Boston Globe
; ... boats, and close-ups of striving bodies, equipment, and the prow of a ship driving through ice. The film is assisted by animated maps and an assortment of talking heads - notably the historian Roland Huntford and Shackleton's granddaughter, Alexandra Shackleton ...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Island of endurance; A British adventurer heads to South Georgia to star in a film about one of the great feats of derring-do.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: STEPHEN VENABLES THERE are many good reasons to go to South Georgia, but perhaps its most compelling attraction is that it is very difficult to get to. Eight thousand miles from London and 800 miles from the nearest serious habitation in the Falklands, it is gloriously remote. On my first
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Adventures on ice.(making of Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure)
Geographical
; This month, the IMAX film Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure opens in London. Editor Carolyn Fry goes behind the giant screen to find out how the moviemakers recreated the explorer's heroic journey WITH AN EXPLOSIVE crackle, white flashbulbs momentarily bleach the masts of a sailing ship against a
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To hell and back A stirring tale of luck and leadership: the Shackleton expedition to Antarctica
The Boston Globe
; THE ENDURANCE Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition By Caroline Alexander. Knopf. 211 pp. Illustrated. $29.95. David Mehegan is the book editor of the Globe. Although it is much less well-known, at least in America, one must place the Antarctic epic of Sir Ernest Shackleton in the same league
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Culture: New drama straight from the ice age; It was tough on Shackleton but Mark McGann is glad he did it, says Alison Jones.(Features)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Byline: Alison Jones The last thing Mark McGann was hoping for this year was a white Christmas, having spent a month in the snow-covered wastes of Greenland filmingShackleton. The Liverpudlian actor found himself stepping gingerly on ice floes and even hurling himself down the side of a mountain in
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Shackleton's heroic misadventure featured; Trans-Antartic dream: PBS and A&E chronicle explorer's ill-fated mission
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; NEW YORK - First the good news, Ernest Shackleton: After braving 800 miles of treacherous seas, your ... whaling boat has landed on the coast of South Georgia Island. Now the bad news: It's the WRONG coast. You've got to trudge over the island's mountainous ...
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Ernest Shackleton, a hero who rose above bravado
Chicago Sun-Times
; Shackleton By Roland Huntford. Atheneum. $29.95. Explorers are a paradoxical breed. In their chosen arena, the remote places of the universe, they express some of the finest qualities of our species: courage, resourcefulness, daring, loyalty, an unquenchable longing to expand the frontiers of human
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Shackleton's survival skills: risk taking
The Journal Record
; This is the final installment in a series on British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic story of courage and survival in the Antarctic -- and the lessons we modern captains of capitalism can learn from Shackleton's survival skills. What kind of man would head up the first expedition to attempt a
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