After three attempts… Shackleton succeeded (30 August 1916) in rescuing the rest of the Endurance party and bringing them to South America” (DNB). “Shackleton now showed his supreme qualities of leadership…with five companions he made a voyage of 800 miles in a 22-foot boat through some of the stormiest seas in the world, crossed the unknown lofty interior of South Georgia, and reached a Norwegian whaling station on the north coast. His destination Antarctica, his expectations high, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out, on the eve of the First World War, in pursuit of his goal to lead the first expedition across the last unknown continent. The ship sails south, breaking the ice, and ultimately getting trapped by.
But 1915 turned into an unusually icy year in Antarctica after drifting trapped in the ice for nine months, the Endurance was crushed in the ice on October 27. The story of the 19141916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.
An exceptional example.Įrnest Shackleton embarked in 1914 in the Endurance to make the first crossing of the Antarctic continent-1800 miles from sea to sea. South The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. Octavo, original publisher’s blue cloth, upper cover lettered and stamped with image of Endurance in silver, color frontispiece, numerous plates, large folding map, errata slip. The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition: 1914-1917.įirst edition, first issue of Shackleton’s own account of his ill-fated expedition, with folding map at rear, in-text maps and illustrations, and 87 black-and-white plates, most after photographs by Frank Hurley.
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