South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)

South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)
by Ernest Shackleton

South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Ernest Shackleton
Introduction: Fergus Fleming
Photographer: Frank Hurley
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2004-01-27
ISBN: 0142437794
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Book Reviews of South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)

Book Review: hard to keep reading
Summary: 2 Stars

It is tough to get through this book. Only the first half is about Shakleton's expedition. The rest amounts to a log of the Aurora crew that Shakleton relays second-hand.

The Endurance expedition, itself, is quite a piece of history, but the book does a poor job of showing this. The writing is dry. Killing dogs, penguins and seals is a regular thing. Location and weather are reported on almost every page. He does give a good sense of the cold, however and the food supplies.

Summary of South: The Endurance Expedition (Penguin Classics)

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.

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