South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 - Softcover

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

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9781589760929: South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

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ISBN 10: 1589760921 ISBN 13: 9781589760929

Publisher: Narrative Pr, 2001

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Shackleton tells the story of his last expedition (1914-1917) when his ship, the Endurance, was crushed by pack ice.

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Soon after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, his Anglo-Irish rival, Sir Ernest Shackleton, sought to top the feat by making his way from one end of Antarctica to the other on sledge. He set off with a crew of 28, including scientists and a movie cameraman, but the voyage turned disastrous when Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly stuck in pack ice, throwing the men (and the dogs brought to pull the sledges) into a desperate battle for survival. South is Shackleton's own account--one of the critical sources for Alfred Lansing's bestseller Endurance--of what it was like to be "helpless intruders in a strange world," a vivid narrative in which tales of Edwardian pluck are counterpointed with lyrical accounts of whales, penguins, and bizarre mirages. This story of a group of men who beat nearly impossible odds to escape death and make their way home is one of the all-time great survival stories. --Robert McNamara

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