![]() ![]() Telling, the terrifying details of the journey come as vividly to life as ever. ![]() The remarkable story of what happened to the expedition has been told in several previous books, most notably in Shackleton's classic account, "South," published in 1919 to help defray the cost of the project. To this end, he bought a 300-ton barquentine from a Norwegian shipyard, renamed it Endurance after his family motto, "By endurance we conquer," manned it with a mixed company of officers, scientists and seamen, 27 in all, and set "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition."Īs Shackleton himself put it in the prospectus for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: "It will be a greater journey than the journey to the pole and back, and I feel it is up to the British nation to accomplish this, for we haveīeen beaten at the conquest of the North Pole and beaten at the conquest of the South Pole." So writes Caroline Alexander in her stirring new account, But to Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1914, the trans-Antarctic hike was one of the last remaining prizes in exploration. O cross the Antarctic continent from the Weddell to the Ross Sea on foot: in retrospect the project seems a little banal, maybe because we'veīeen spoiled by what exploration has accomplished in the meantime. ![]() Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. ![]() 'The Endurance': Ice, Wondrous Even in the Face of DeathĭecemBOOKS OF THE TIMES 'The Endurance': Ice, Wondrous Even in the Face of Death By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT ![]()
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