Ernest Henry Shackleton

<b>Experience in the polar explorer's own words, Ernest Shackleton's thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship <i>Endurance</i>, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.</b><br/><br/>In 1914, Ernest Shackleton announced <b>an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole</b>. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure-and peril.<br/><br/>This <b>handsome, breathtakingly illustrated edition</b>, first published in 2016, is presented in paperback to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the original publication in 1919 and <b>features:</b><ul><li>The remarkable tale of the treacherous expedition, told in Shackleton's own words</li><li>Images by expedition photographer Frank Hurley</li><li>Modern color photography of the fauna and vistas the men encountered</li><li>Long-lost photos taken by the expedition's Ross Sea Party that were discovered in 2013</li></ul><br/><br/>The expedition's story begins on the eve of World War I, when the ship <i>Endurance</i> departed England with Shackleton and his team of six men. <b>The plan was to travel 1,800 miles across the icy continent</b> from the Atlantic side, while a second team aboard the Aurora, would reach Antarctica's Pacific side and lay out supply depots for the advancing team. As the <i>Endurance</i> approached the continent, <b>however, it became hopelessly locked in an ice floe, beginning a series of harrowing travails</b>.<br/><br/>Over a century later and despite extreme conditions, the wreck of the <i>Endurance</i> was found in the Weddell Sea by a mission dubbed Endurance22, launched by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and led by polar geographer Dr. John Shears. Though the discovery of the <i>Endurance</i> is not covered in this edition, <b>Shackleton's account of the expedition and the photography within are a prerequisite for understanding the full story behind this famed shipwreck</b>.<br/><br/>Today considered an adventure survival classic, <i>South</i> is the true story of a thrilling polar expedition. Never before has Shackleton's lively prose been so extensively and stunningly illustrated.