Make yourself a favor and buy the book. It's full of wonderful photos, and the story is unbelievable. For a complete tour, also read "The worst journey in the world" about 1911 Scott's expedition (available on gutenberg.org for free).
Excellent images. For anyone even remotely interested in the topic, the film “South”, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0198559/, is comprised of hauntingly awesome actual video footage of the ill-fated 1914-1916 voyage. I believe there's also an enhanced version of the material (with re-enactments &c.) but I haven't seen that one.
South is one of the greatest true-to-life adventure stories ever written. I heard a few years back some famous underwater explorer was contemplating diving to the wreck of the Endurance. Hurley left behind a number of glass plate negatives, which still may be salvageable, supposedly.
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Including the rather sad postscript that most of the men that survived this adventure died in the trenches in WWI