South : The Endurance Expedition

by Shackleton, Ernest (Author); Fleming, Fergus (Introduction by); Hurley, Frank (Photographer)

• ISBN13: 9780142437797
• ISBN10: 0142437794
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurancehas long captured the public imagination. Southis his own first-hand account of this epic adventure.As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice. Alone in the world’s most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.

Author Biography

Ernest Shackleton (1874-û1922) was a junior officer under Robert Falcon Scott during the 1901-û1904 expedition to the South Pole. His expedition on the whaler Nimrod in 1907 earned him a knighthood.

Fergus Fleming is the author of Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps, Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole, and Barrow-'s Boys.