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Escape from the Antarctic (Great Journeys Series) by Sir Ernest Shackleton
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from absurdity by his heroic, terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat to a whaling station on South Georgia. Through one of the greatest recorded feats of navigation and of ...Show more
Heart of the Antarctic and South by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$16.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reached the Antarctic mainland at all). Yet it is the second ...Show more
South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Experience the epic survival adventure of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, brought to life with photos from the journey as well as modern color photography of the fauna, seascapes, and landscapes! In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead t ...Show more
South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Adlard Coles Maritime Classics
In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, and Scott and his colleagues all died on the return journey. Ernest Shackleton, who had served with Scott on a previous expedition, decided that crossing Antarctica from sea to sea was the last great unattempted journey on the continent. ...Show more
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