The Enduring Popularity of Ernest Shackleton

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This paper discusses the enduring popularity of Ernest Shackleton who was involved in a legendary Antarctic expedition. It particularly focuses on why interest in Ernest Shackleton increased dramatically in about 1995 and lasted until 2003. It discusses the expedition and looks at the film "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition," that The Burke Museum of Natural History at the University of Washington showed in 2001.

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"With the release of the new information, there followed a wide range of materials dealing with Shackleton. These included two biographies suitable for elementary students (Marcovitz; reviewed by Ching; Calvert, reviewed by McLoughlin), and two others suitable for middle school students (Plimpton, reviewed by Cohen; reviewed by Jones; Johnson, reviewed by Engberg, and reviewed by Gawron). At the same time, there has been a remarkable general revival of interest in all things from these expeditions. Captain Scott's snow goggles were recently sold at auction for more than L20,000, and a biscuit recovered from that expedition went for a remarkable L4,000 (Smith 50)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Alexander, Caroline. "Epic of Survival: Shackleton." National Geographic 194, Nov. 1998: 82-101.
• Ching, Edith. Review of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Struggle against Antarctica by Hal Marcovitz. School Library Journal 48 (Apr. 2003): 178.
• Cohen, George. Review of Ernest Shackleton by George Plimpton. Booklist 99 (15 May 2003): 1634-35.
• "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition." American Museum of Natural History. 1999. 23 Apr. 2007 <http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/shackleton/>.
• "Endurance Bibliography." "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition." Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. 2001. 23 Apr. 2007 <http:// www.washington.edu/ burkemuseum/endurance/links4.html>.

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