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In an age when it is fashionable to forget the achievements of the
great explorers of the heroic age, comes the timely rebirth of this
legendary book, penned by a band of brave British men whose wit and
wisdom blazes like a sun beside todays lesser stars. In 1907 Ernest
Shackleton led the Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica. He established
a base camp at Cape Royds on Ross Island and built a wooden hut to
serve as headquarters. Because of his prior experience with Robert
Scotts first expedition, Shackleton knew the sunless winter months
spent in these cramped quarters would test the morale of his men,
so he set several of them to work writing and printing the first
book ever produced on the Antarctic continent. Containing fact,
fiction, humour, prose and poetry, Aurora Australis, is one of the
most extraordinary travel books ever written. It contains stories
about the Antarctic wildlife, describes the harsh conditions
suffered by the explorers and recounts their journey to the top of
Mount Erebus, a nearby active volcano surrounded by ice. An
estimated one hundred copies were originally Printed at the Sign of
the Penguin by these gifted authors, the result of which is a
unique symbol of the heroic age of exploration. Because of its
rarity a first edition of Aurora Australis recently sold for more
than $100,000. This special edition is being produced in an effort
to raise awareness of the need to conserve the four huts used by
the British explorers, along with the remarkable memorabilia and
icebound supplies preserved within their frozen walls. Having
endured nearly a century of harsh weather, these huts still
symbolise the nobler aspects of human nature which took these
talented and bravemen to Antarctica. The buildings are now
considered to be some of the most endangered historic structures in
the world.
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most
ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to
master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with
the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice
and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow
and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton,
the expedition's leader, decided on the only course that might just
save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the
ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only
human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the
rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia. South tells the story
both of the whole astonishing expedition and of Shackleton's
journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of navigation
ever recorded.
This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by
the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of
both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a
broad and representative collection of classic works.
A blow by blow journal of an amazing journey, an ice-bound
adventure, an incredible feat of exploration, and an unbelievably
intrepid leader. A thriller you wouldn't believe in a novel - but
it happened! Can they really survive? Impossible??
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South (Paperback)
Ernest Shackleton
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R639
Discovery Miles 6 390
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