South : the Endurance expedition / Sir Ernest Shackleton ; illustrated photographs by Frank Hurley

Author: Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922
Additional Titles: Endurance expedition
Published: New York : Signet, [1999]
Physical Description: xxviii, 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 17 cm

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Contents

Into the Weddell Sea -- New land - Winter months -- Loss of the Endurance -- Ocean camp -- The march between -- Patience camp -- Escape from the ice -- The boat journey -- Across South Georgia -- The rescue -- Elephant Island -- The Ross Sea Party -- Wintering in McMurdo Sound -- Laying the depots -- The Aurora's drift -- The last relief -- The final phase.

Summary

"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, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe. In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive. What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance. This is their story, as told by the man who led them."--Publisher's note.

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ISBN

0451198808 (pbk.)
9780451198808 (pbk.)

Note

Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1919.
Includes index.
Description based on surrogate.

Source of Acquisition

Hazleton copy: Gift of Dr. Monica E. Gregory, Director of Academic Affairs, 1998-2011; 2010.

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