South, Sir Ernest Shackleton
South, Sir Ernest Shackleton
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South
The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Author: Sir Ernest Shackleton

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 14 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2011

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Sir Ernest 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.

Author Bio

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was a junior officer under Robert Falcon Scott during the 1901-1904 expedition to the South Pole. His expedition on the whaler Nimrod in 1907 earned him a knighthood. He detailed his adventures aboard the Endurance during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-1917 in the memoir South.

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