South - The Endurance Expedition

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton, the expedition''s leader, decided on the only course that might just save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia.br>br>South tells the story both of the whole astonishing expedition and of Shackleton''s journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of navigation ever recorded.>

Product details

• Authors: Ernest Shackleton, Ernest H. Shackleton, Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
• Assisted by: Frank Hurley (Photographs)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780241251096
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25109-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Non-fiction book; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Antarctica, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, Expeditions: popular accounts