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Huntford, Roland, 1927-
Subjects
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration.
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Huntford, Roland, 1927-
Subjects
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.
Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration.
Publisher Info:
New York : Atheneum, 1986, c1985.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
xx, 774 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
068911429X :
9780689114298
Contents:
Prologue: "Great Shack!" -- Anglo-Irish background -- Round the Horn -- A path to fame and fortune? -- National Antarctic Expedition -- Discovery -- A protean world of ice -- Polar travel -- Polar night -- Dogs and diet -- The southern journey -- Race for life -- Invalided home -- A new and better path? -- "An east-windy, west-endy place" -- Prospects, but no work -- British Antarctic Expedition, 1907 -- Seven months to prepare -- When Nimrod sailed -- A broken promise -- McMurdo Sound -- The conquest of Mount Erebus -- Midwinter -- "A glorious day for our start" -- Furthest South -- March or die -- National Hero -- Sir Ernest's debts -- Hungarian mines -- "A bit of a floating gent" -- Endurance -- South Georgia -- Pack ice at 59[degree]28' -- Two helpless hulks -- "The secret of our unanimity" -- Death agony of Endurance -- Responsibility to Shackleton -- "So now we'll go home" -- From Ocean Camp to Patience Camp -- Escape by a hair's breadth -- "We can only wait and see" -- Into the open sea -- Half-way house -- Tension on Elephant Island -- Relief preparations -- The open-boat journey -- A slight change of course -- The line that divides success from failure -- King Haakon Bay -- The crossing of South Georgia -- A trio of scarecrows -- "Urgent need immediate rescue" -- Cape Wild -- Aurora and the end of the expedition -- South America and Northern Russia -- Quest -- Epilogue: The Fourth Presence.
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