South

Ernest Shackleton

• 27 januari 2004
• 9781440650413

Samenvatting:

Veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton"s excruciating and inspiring expedition to Antarctica aboard the Endurance has long captured the public imagination. South is his own first-hand account of this epic adventure.

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

First time published as a Penguin ClassicIncludes a selection of Frank Hurley's famous photographsFeatures a new Introduction by Fergus Fleming