South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition | 
 enlarge | Author: Ernest Shackleton
Publisher: EbooksLib
Category: EBooks
List Price: $3.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 33697
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
ASIN: B000FC1TIU
Publication Date: July 22, 2004
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Product Description
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeyings - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea.
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 Excellent book with pictures January 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm rather obsessed with Antarctic exploration at the moment, and reading material is harder to come by than I had first anticipated. This book has many good pictures and lots of diary entries, etc, from Shakleton and others. Well worth it.
 missing pages, no map December 6, 2003
Pages 153 to 180 are repeated, and then 181 to 209 are missing (gone south?). Also, there is no general map in a book which discusses the geography and navigation of the expedition at length. There are lots of good b&w photos, and the story in absorbing, but this is some seriously sloppy publishing.Rob Anzellotti
Literally Chilling! March 15, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
My good friend Antonia Martin just gave me this book for my birthday. Antonia, you are an absolute Treasure!I have become fascinated with the Shackleton story, not only for the awesome testament to dogged determination to succeed in the face of seemingly daunting odds that it is, but because apparently my Grandfather knew him quite well and worked on the planning of the journey back in London. Somewhere we have a signed original of the book from 1919 amongst Mother's belongings, back in England. This is a bone chilling visual and literary step by aching step trudge through the most inhospitable place on Earth. As the Endurance, their ship, died so their own endurance was born. And what an endurance that was! As my eyes wander the pages in the warm comfort of bed my mind is wind-whipped by the Antarctic blasts Shackleton and his team ultimately survived! It is quite simply one of the most amazing stories it has ever been my pleasure to absorb. I am in awe of the achievement described and pictured in this book. Everybody should read it!
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