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South: the Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition

First published: 1919
Pages: 406

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Shackleton set out in 1914 to cross Antarctica on foot and never set foot on the continent at all. Endurance was caught in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, drifted for ten months, and was crushed. What followed is why the book is still read: camps on breaking floes, an open-boat run to Elephant Island, then the 800-mile passage to South Georgia in the James Caird and a mountain crossing to reach a whaling station. Shackleton published his account in 1919 in the flat, understated register of a man reporting facts, and he gives fair space to the Ross Sea party, whose parallel ordeal cost three lives. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Ernest Henry Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer who made four Antarctic voyages. He came within 97 miles of the South Pole in 1909 and later turned a failed crossing into the most famous rescue in exploration history. He died at South Georgia in 1922.

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