SOUTH_CLASSICS EB

Ernest Shackleton

• Publisher: William Collins
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9780008663964
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Historical Biographies
• Index: History

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Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.'

The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackleton's party has no choice but make an impossible journey across an uncharted landscape of unstable ice floes, stormy seas and inhospitable glaciers. What follows is a desperate quest for survival, an epic true-story of derring-do from a true hero of the Golden age of Antarctic exploration.

Against the poignant backdrop of World War I, Shackleton recounts the tale of his own battle, 'the White Warfare of the South,' a desperate struggle of human resilience, determination and teamwork against nature itself.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Note to Readers
• History of Collins
• Life & Times
• Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• Chapter I Into the Weddell Sea
• Chapter II New Land
• Chapter III Winter Months
• Chapter IV Loss of the Endurance
• Chapter V Ocean Camp
• Chapter VI The March Between
• Chapter VII Patience Camp
• Chapter VIII Escape From the Ice
• Chapter IX The Boat Journey
• Chapter X Across South Georgia
• Chapter XI The Rescue
• Chapter XII Elephant Island
• Chapter XIII The Ross Sea Party
• Chapter XIV Wintering in Mcmurdo Sound
• Chapter XV Laying the Depots
• Chapter XVI The Aurora’s Drift
• Chapter XVII The Last Relief
• Chapter XVIII The Final Phase
• Appendix The Expedition Huts at Mcmurdo Sound
• Classic Literature: Words and Phrases
• About the Publisher