South: The Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, book by Ernest Shackleton

This astonishing memoir of Shackleton’s final voyage explores courage, tenacity and unflagging hope in the face of adversity. Including Frank Hurley’s incomparable photographs of the expedition, South remains one of the greatest adventures of the twentieth century.

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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was a pioneer of Antarctic Exploration. He was a member of Scott’s first voyage south (1901-4), and led his first expedition on the Nimrod in 1907. By 1914, when the Endurance sailed for Antactica, Shackleton was a veteran explorer.