Shackleton

Summary

The acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, Ernest Shackleton, from his Anglo-Irish childhood through the race for the South Pole to his last expedition to the North Pole.

Author Biography

Roland Huntford is the winner of the Nelson Hurst & Marsh Biography Award. His dual biography of Scott and Amundsen was made into the highly rated PBS special "The Last Place on Earth." He lives in Cambridge

List of Illustrations	p. xi
List of Maps	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Prologue: "Great Shack!"	p. 3
Anglo-Irish background	p. 4
Round the Horn	p. 13
A path to fame and fortune?	p. 24
National Antarctic Expedition	p. 31
Discovery	p. 45
A protean world of ice	p. 51
Polar travel	p. 64
Polar night	p. 70
Dogs and diet	p. 79
The southern journey	p. 88
Race for life	p. 104
Invalided home	p. 114
A new and better path?	p. 119
"An east-windy, west-endy place"	p. 129
Prospects, but no work	p. 140
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907	p. 158
Seven months to prepare	p. 167
When Nimrod sailed	p. 178
A broken promise	p. 187
McMurdo Sound	p. 208
The conquest of Mount Erebus	p. 219
Midwinter	p. 229
"A glorious day for our start"	p. 239
Furthest South	p. 249
March or die	p. 275
National Hero	p. 293
Sir Ernest's debts	p. 304
Hungarian mines	p. 321
"A bit of a floating gent"	p. 331
Endurance	p. 364
South Georgia	p. 383
Pack ice at 59[degree]28'	p. 399
Two helpless hulks	p. 412
"The secret of our unanimity"	p. 421
Death agony of Endurance	p. 439
Responsibility to Shackleton	p. 449
"So now we'll go home"	p. 454
From Ocean Camp to Patience Camp	p. 465
Escape by a hair's breadth	p. 480
"We can only wait and see"	p. 488
Into the open sea	p. 503
Half-way house	p. 520
Tension on Elephant Island	p. 528
Relief preparations	p. 542
The open-boat journey	p. 546
A slight change of course	p. 563
The line that divides success from failure	p. 566
King Haakon Bay	p. 573
The crossing of South Georgia	p. 581
A trio of scarecrows	p. 597
"Urgent need immediate rescue"	p. 604
Cape Wild	p. 620
Aurora and the end of the expedition	p. 626
South America and Northern Russia	p. 649
Quest	p. 673
Epilogue: The Fourth Presence	p. 695
Appendices
Note on units	p. 701
Abbreviations	p. 703
Notes	p. 705
Sources	p. 741
Index	p. 755
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