Twenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe one
thousand miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the
ice would melt. To survive they would have to be safely on land
before that happened-if they did not starve first. The odds were
stacked against them. Facing all the horrors that the Antarctic
could bring to bear, including numbing cold and the worst weather
on the globe, they could freeze, starve, or drown. The single
advantage they did have, however, proved decisive. They were led by
Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922). This saga is their tale and that of
the man who led them. T. H. Baughman is a professor of history at
the University of Central Oklahoma and the author of several books,
including Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s and
Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic
Expedition, both available in Bison Books editions.
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