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1874-1922

Ernest Shackleton

looking south
2001
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.

What the ice gets

Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916 : a poem
2000

Sir Ernest Shackleton

2009
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.

The Endurance expedition

2011
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 flag at the pole

three soliloquies
1976
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.".

The Lost Men

The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Expedition
2006
An account of the support group that was dispatched to assist Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 crossing of the Antarctic describes how the Ross Sea ship was lost in a gale, stranding ten men without supplies or a hope of resuce.

Endurance

shipwreck and survival on a sea of ice
2002
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.

You wouldn't want to be a polar explorer

An expedition you'd rather not go on
2005
A humorous look at the polar expedition of Ernest Shackleton.

South

a memoir of the Endurance voyage
1998
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.

Endurance

Shackleton's incredible voyage
2001
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.

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