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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 28 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.

Table of Contents
South: The Endurance ExpeditionIntroduction by Fergus Fleming
Preface

I. Into the Weddell Sea
II. New Land
III. Winter Months
IV. Loss of the Endurance
V. Ocean Camp
VI. The March Between
VII. Patience Camp
VIII. Escape from the Ice
IX. The Boat Journey
X. Across South Georgia
XI. The Rescue
XII. Elephant Island
XIII. The Ross Sea Party
XIV. Wintering in McMurdo Sound
XV. Laying the Depots
XVI. The Aurora's Drift
XVII. The Last Relief
XVIII. The Final Phase

APPENDIX I
Scientific Work
Sea-Ice Nomenclature
Meteorology
Physics
South Atlantic Whales and Whaling

APPENDIX II
The Expedition Huts at McMurdo Sound

Index

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 1/27/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780142437797
      978-0142437797
      ISBN-10 0142437794
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 28 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.

      Table of Contents
      South: The Endurance ExpeditionIntroduction by Fergus Fleming
      Preface

      I. Into the Weddell Sea
      II. New Land
      III. Winter Months
      IV. Loss of the Endurance
      V. Ocean Camp
      VI. The March Between
      VII. Patience Camp
      VIII. Escape from the Ice
      IX. The Boat Journey
      X. Across South Georgia
      XI. The Rescue
      XII. Elephant Island
      XIII. The Ross Sea Party
      XIV. Wintering in McMurdo Sound
      XV. Laying the Depots
      XVI. The Aurora's Drift
      XVII. The Last Relief
      XVIII. The Final Phase

      APPENDIX I
      Scientific Work
      Sea-Ice Nomenclature
      Meteorology
      Physics
      South Atlantic Whales and Whaling

      APPENDIX II
      The Expedition Huts at McMurdo Sound

      Index

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