South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
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.
- Author
- Ernest Shackleton, Peter King, Frank Hurley
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 374
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-7126-6412-7
- EAN
- 9780712664127
- Characters
- Ernest Shackleton
- Settings
- Grytviken, South Georgia, Antarctica
- Genres
- history, adventure, biography, travel, memoir, historical, survival, classics, autobiography
- Release date
- 1999
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