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What an amazing story! Set in poem form (not the rhyme-y sing-song-y kind, fortunately), it related the story of the Shackleton expedition to Antartica, 1914-1916. The courage and perseverance of these brave men when their ship got stuck and then destroyed by the ice is nothing short of miraculous. All along the way, from being marooned on the ice for months, through their harrowing journey in three little boats to the nearest, though uninhabited, island, and through the final unbelievable trek
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Terri FL
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