South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)

Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton?s excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is 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. more

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-26-2007; hard to keep reading; It is tough to get through this book. Only the first half is about Shakleton's expedition. The rest amounts to a log of the Aurora crew that Shakleton relays second-hand.The Endurance expedition, itself, is quite a piece of history,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-12-2006; South -- to the end.; My case of Shackleton Fever finally ended with this book -- the story of the doomed antarctic expedition as seen through the eyes of Shackleton himself. He emerges from these pages as an intelligent man who is modest about his...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-27-2006; Great account of adventure and survival in Antarctica.; This is one of the best survival/adventure stories that you will ever read. The events which take place during the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917 are re-told by several different points of view and this gives the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-27-2006; Great account of adventure and survival in Antarctica.; This is one of the best survival/adventure stories that you will ever read. The events which take place during the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917 are re-told by several different points of view and this gives the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-12-2006; South -- to the end.; My case of Shackleton Fever finally ended with this book -- the story of the doomed antarctic expedition as seen through the eyes of Shackleton himself. He emerges from these pages as an intelligent man who is modest about his...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-26-2007; hard to keep reading; It is tough to get through this book. Only the first half is about Shakleton's expedition. The rest amounts to a log of the Aurora crew that Shakleton relays second-hand.The Endurance expedition, itself, is quite a piece of history,...; read full review | report as inappropriate