Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition The Voyage of the Nimrod

Name: Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition The Voyage of the Nimrod
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ISBN: 9781582346113

ISBN-10: 1582346119

ISBN-13: 9781582346113

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Authors: Beau Riffenburgh

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Shackleton’s Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton’s epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were members of the expedition the first to climb the active volcano Mount Erebus and the first to reach the South Magnetic Pole, but Shackleton himself led a party of four that trudged hundreds of miles across uncharted wastelands and up to the terrible Antarctic Plateau to plant the Union Jack only ninety-seven miles from the South Pole itself. Based on extensive research and first-hand accounts…

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List price: $15.95
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09	p. xxiii
Prologue	p. 1
A Race for Life	p. 5
A Product of Empire	p. 15
Life at Sea, Love on Land	p. 29
War or an Unknown Place?	p. 41
The Making of the British National Antarctic Expedition	p. 53
The Great White South	p. 63
The Southern Journey	p. 75
A Square Peg and a Round Hole	p. 91
A Soul Whipped on by the Wanderfire	p. 105
Nimrod	p. 117
Underway at Last	p. 129
A Promise Broken	p. 143
Cape Royds	p. 157
New Worlds to Conquer	p. 169
Waiting Out the Winter	p. 181
Across the Great Ice Barrier	p. 195
The Western Party	p. 211
Nearest the Pole	p. 221
The Wandering Pole	p. 235
Forced March	p. 251
Rescue	p. 265
Heroes Return	p. 279
Epilogue	p. 297
Glossary	p. 313
Notes	p. 315
Bibliography	p. 337
Index	p. 349
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