The Lost Men, Kelly TylerLewis
The Lost Men, Kelly TylerLewis
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The Lost Men
The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

Author: Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Abridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2006


Synopsis

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.

When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale in 1915, she left ten men stranded on the continent with only the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Against all odds, the men decided to go forward with their mission, sledging 1,700 miles in a record-setting two-year odyssey. They never imagined that their immense sacrifice was futile -- for Shackleton never set foot on the continent, and the Endurance lay crushed at the bottom of the Weddell Sea.

Inexperienced and poorly equipped, the men of the Ross Sea party endured the unspeakable suffering of malnutrition, hypothermia, and extreme weather conditions with fortitude. With their personal journals and previously unpublished documents, Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings us close to these men in their best and bleakest times and revives for us their heroic, astounding story of survival in the most hostile environment on earth.

About Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Historian Kelly Tyler-Lewis traveled for research to Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica, where she spent two months with the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program. She was a visiting scholar of the Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2004. She is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary film writer and producer.

About Graeme Malcolm

Malcolm Graeme has appeared on and off Broadway in Aida, The King and I, Lincoln Center's Hapgood, and M. Butterfly (National Tour). His television appearances include Law & Order, Follow the River, and Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (with Laurence Olivier). Film credits include A Further Gesture, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, and Reunion.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine on April 16, 2022

5 glorious stars!!! What a brilliant piece of writing this is! The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton’s Ross Sea Party is just outstanding and every bit as good as one of the very best books I’ve read in my life—Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Ironically, each of these books tells one half of th......more

Goodreads review by Peter on October 01, 2013

I had the unique "honor" of recommending this book without reservation to the author. We were at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and while browsing in the gift shop I was next to a woman who was looking at the book. When I said that she must read it as it was one the most riveting books that h......more

Goodreads review by George on June 03, 2024

Brilliant, detailed and gripping. A more complete account than a previous book on the same topic (Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic). Shackleton's Ross Sea party were intended to help him cross the continent, and while waiting and preparing have their own tales of a......more

Goodreads review by Jazzy on July 06, 2024

Taken from letters and diaries of the ill-fated men.......more

Goodreads review by Greg on December 07, 2017

The history of polar exploration is filled with human stories on spectrum scaled from despicable-to-craven-to-stupid-to-naïve-to-ambitious-to-noble-to-heroic. The Lost Men, which closes the chapter on the early age of Antarctic exploration, touches on all these emotions to tell a tragic and, ultimat......more


Quotes

"Amazingly detailed...a gripping work."
-- Publishers Weekly