Customer Reviews
Both audiobook versions are excellent - By: , 25 Aug 1999 
This pertains to the audiobooks published by HighBridge (Abridged) & Books on Tape (Unabridged). I did a comparative review of these two taped versions & found both excellent. Both are 6 hours long, & I could determine no differences between their texts. (I didn't do a word by word comparison.) The readingin both is clear & empathetic to the ordeal of the men, but the rich voice & style of the HighBridge reader, Michael Tezla, makes the story a bit easier to track. A second reader, Martin Ruben, reads diary entriesin the accent of the writer. The Books on Tape case is sturdy & the text on the case is easy to read; HighBridge editors should NOT have printed black on dark brown & white on black on the cardboard case. Pictures are missing from the audiobooks, of course, but the quality of both the story & the reading is so excellent that either version will make an excellent choice for libraries or for gifts or for reading on a daily commute.
Photos add valuable documentation to oft-told tale - By: , 05 Nov 1998 
Although this book adds nothing new to an already well-documented heroic venture, as an introducion to those just now being bitten by the Shackleton bug, it will serve its purpose quite well. Frank Hurley's photographs alone make the book a valuable addition to any afficianado's collection on the subject. They are awe-inspiring, &in turn both majestic & intimatein their portrayal of the fate of the Endurance & her crew. This book is releasedin conjunction with the exhibition to be mounted at the Museum of Natural History next spring; I only wish that some additional material, such as journal pages & related artifacts had been included to give the book a little more "warmth" since the subject matter is so undeniably "chilly"!
