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 unknown territory of the South Pole. But within weeks of their arrival, their vessel became trapped in ice, drifting helplessly for months before sinking and leaving the crew stranded on a melting ice floe.
This account of the expedition's two-year struggle in one of the world's most uninhabitable regions relates a near-miraculous escape from multiple dangers:
| ISBN: | 9780486833132 |
| Publication date: | 28th June 2019 |
| Author: | Ernest Henry Shackleton |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Genres: |
Geographical discovery and exploration |
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 unknown territory of the South Pole.
South features in the following genres: Geographical discovery and exploration
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South was written by Ernest Henry Shackleton and published by Dover Publications an imprint of Dover Publications Inc
South has 384 pages
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