The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party, Volume 95Viking, 2006 - 366 pages The excruciating tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's "Endurance" expedition In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the "Endurance" to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few know the harrowing story of the Ross Sea party, Shackleton's support group dispatched to the other side of the continent to build a lifeline of food and fuel depots to bear his crossing. "I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulties," Shackleton wrote. Yet everything went tragically wrong when the Ross Sea ship, the "Aurora," tore free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale, leaving ten men marooned with only the clothes on their backs and few provisions. With little hope of rescue from a world embroiled in World War I, the men decided to accomplish their mission against all odds. Long overshadowed by the mission these men bargained their lives to sustain, this heartrending story of survival against all odds now gets its due in this definitive, surprising account of the final journey of the heroic age of polar expedition. |
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... Below the Convergence : Voyages toward Antarctica 1699-1839 . New York : W. W. Norton , 1997 . The Race to the White Continent : Voyages to the Antarctic . New York : W. W. Norton , 2000 . Hand , Michael S. , and Bruce J. Novotny ...
... Below the Convergence : Voyages toward Antarctica 1699-1839 . New York : W. W. Norton , 1997 . The Race to the White Continent : Voyages to the Antarctic . New York : W. W. Norton , 2000 . Hand , Michael S. , and Bruce J. Novotny ...
Contents
Preface I | 1 |
That Restless Spirit | 9 |
The Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition | 19 |
Copyright | |
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aboard Æneas Mackintosh Alexander Stevens Antarctic Antarctica April Arnold Spencer-Smith Aurora Australia Barrier blizzard Bluff Depot British cable camp Cape Evans Cape Royds command Cope crevasses crew December diary dogs drift Endurance Ernest Joyce Ernest Perris Ernest Shackleton Ernest Wild expedition exploration February February 27 Frank Wild Frank Worsley Glacier Tongue Howard Ninnis Hut Point Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Irvine Gaze James Paton January John King Davis joined Joseph Stenhouse journey Joyce's party Keith Jack Larkman Leonard Tripp Leslie Thomson load London Mackintosh's party March Mawson McMurdo Sound miles Mount Hope Nimrod officer pack ice Pole pounds Richard Richards Ross Sea party Ross Sea Shore Royal sail Scott scurvy sea ice Sea party's Sea Shore Party season ship ship's Sir Ernest sledging snow South Polar Trail SPRI tent Victor Hayward voyage Weddell Sea wind winter wireless Worsley Zealand