THE SHIP BENEATH THE ICE: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. By Mensun Bound. Mariner Books. 416 pages. $35. That old proverb your mother taught you — “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try ...
Seldom has failing done as much for a man’s reputation as it did for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s. Leading an expedition that lasted from 1907 to 1909, the Anglo-Irishman tried to discover the South Pole ...
The so-called Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration ran from the 1890s to the early 1920s. Its stars still burn brightly—perhaps especially so in our own gruesomely unheroic times—with Ernest Shackleton ...
Artifacts from Shackleton's polar expeditions have been auctioned at Sotheby's in London, including a map of Antarctica hand-drawn by the Anglo-Irish explorer. Several items from Shackleton's ...
The discovery of the wrecked Endurance, well preserved almost 10,000 feet down in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, brings that terrible voyage back to mind. Here are a few classics that explore the 20-month ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lloyd Spencer Davis SHACKLETON The Biography By Ranulph Fiennes Here is a test. Scott, Shackleton ...
The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers ...
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