Browse by category
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton
Category: History
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure--and peril. South is the remarkable tale of the ill-fated expedition, told in Shackleton's own words--breathtakingly il ...Show more
South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Category: History | Series: Adlard Coles Maritime Classics
In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, and Scott and his colleagues all died on the return journey. Ernest Shackleton, who had served with Scott on a previous expedition, decided that crossing Antarctica from sea to sea was the last great unattempted journey on the continent. ...Show more
South - The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest Shackleton
Category: Travel
Hailed as "a rousing read" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1914 he and his 28-man crew boarded the ship Endurance and sailed away to do something no one had ever done: to traverse and chart the mostly ...Show more
SouthThe Endurance Expedition by Ernest Henry Shackleton
Category: History
In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushi ...Show more