shackleton, ernest henry

The life story of famed Antarctic explorer Shackleton, featuring Frank Hurley's famous photos of the Endurance expedition. Follows him from his first sailing position at the age of 16 to his legendary polar expeditions. Includes candid interviews with family members, scholars and archivists.

Presents the life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer who fell short of his goal of crossing Antarctica, but accomplished a far greater feat by bringing every member of his crew back alive.

Provides an account of the expedition mounted by Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton to be the first to cross the entire continent of Antarctica in 1914.

A fictional account told in the first person by Ernest Shackleton, Robert Scott, and Roald Amundsen of the motives that drove them and the physical and psychological difficulties they encountered in their attempts to be "first at the South Pole.".

Tells the story of the shipwreck of the Endurance in a sea of ice en route to Antarctica, and the amazing survival of all 28 members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.

A humorous look at the polar expedition of Ernest Shackleton.

A memoir in which Sir Ernest Shackleton provides a personal account of his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, a voyage that resulted in disaster when his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice and was stranded for nine months before being crushed.

Provides an account of the voyage undertaken by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew aboard the "Endurance" in 1914-15, telling how the men survived after their ship became locked inside an island of ice and drifted for ten months before being crushed.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, the expedition ship, the Endurance, was finally crushed and Shackleton and his men made the very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.