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    South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files
    South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files
    South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files
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    South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files

    By Ernest Henry Shackleton

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files

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    • 5/5
      The greatest adventure story ever, by one of the greatest leaders ever.
    • 5/5
      I read this casually, a little at a time. It's one of the great adventure stories of all time, and smashing stuff (get it?) but...here's how it works: it's based on the journals of Shackleton and everyone else in his party - he gives others lots of time too - and the entries can be a little repetitious. Like, y'know, "Still stuck on an iceberg. Cold and hungry."

      Shackleton's a surprisingly good writer, though. Clear, engaging and often funny. That livens up the doldrum periods - but also, the effect of the long passages in which nothing dramatic happens is that when something does happen, it happens with extraordinary, direct impact. His account of - minor spoiler, I guess? - the final destruction of the Endurance is just crushing. An incredibly powerful moment. The immediacy of the epistolaryish format, with its you-are-here feel, makes the big moments of the expedition directly heartbreaking.

      After his account of the main expedition, he starts completely over with what happened with the other boat, the Aurora. (You will have forgotten they exist by this time.) This is a tough one; it's just as compelling a story - they actually had it worse, if you can believe that, and again it's based on journals so it has that you're-right-there! feel to it, but there's no avoiding the fact that, having slogged all the way through Shackleton's brutal story, you groan a little when you realize you're about to start over.

      I guess I'd suggest laying it aside and picking it up later for this part. It is much shorter, at least. And it's much shorter even than it looks, because after the story of the Aurora's landing party (again, this really is great stuff on its own), Shackleton backtracks again, to the people who stayed on the Aurora, and that part is utterly skippable. Nothing whatsoever happens. I read it so you don't have to. Just stop there.
    • 4/5
      The story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's eventful journey across the south pole, told from his perspective and then from the perspectives of some of the other groups that were stationed at different parts of the Antarctic and also the ships. Interesting and at times harrowing.
    • 4/5
      Shackleton's 'Endurance' expedition is without question one of the most amazing and compelling adventure stories of all time. It is a true testament to the power of leadership and the ability of men to persevere in the face of incredible odds and prolonged suffering. That said, Shackleton's account of the expedition is probably the least interesting of all of the accounts that I've yet read. It suffers from typical old-fashioned British understatement, and as a result, episodes that were in fact dramatic and harrowing come across as rather routine and unremarkable. Some might extol the virtues of such humility in prose, but those looking for an entertaining read would be well off to read another author's account of the expedition. A truly great leader of men was Shackleton, but as an author, I believe he left something to be desired. Try Caroline Alexander's or Alfred Lansing's accounts of the Endurance expedition first, and then if you want to hear his own account, read Shackleton's afterwards. In summary, an incredible story, but very dry prose.
    • 5/5
      Quite simply awesome. And I don't use the word lightly, considering it is very much an overused word. Ernest Shackleton was a hero not only because of what he endured, but because of how he led. As opposed to Robert Scott who made a series of errors (as well as experiencing some genuine bad luck with inclement weather) culminating in disaster in 1912, Shackleton's primary concern above all aspects of his mission were the men under his command. In 1908 - on his earlier 'farthest south' expedition, he turned himself and his men around when within reach of the elusive Pole. He had realised that due to depleted rations and muscles, in the face of extremely adverse weather, if they attained their stated aim of the Pole, they would not return alive. As it was, he had to be hauled on a sledge for the last slog by his two exhausted team-mates, as he was too weakened to carry on unaided...This book tells the almost incredible tale of how his 1914 expedition failed early in its stated aims, but ultimately triumphed against a series of truly fearsome circumstances in the most inhospitable place on earth. Survival on the ice after the crushing destruction of their ship the Endurance, followed by the break-up of the ice and the harrowing escape over the ice floes into the open waters on board the Endurance's 3 lifeboats until the sanctuary of the bleak Elephant Island. Here is where the story begins anew as 'Uncle' Shackleton and 5 men depart for help leaving behind the remaining expedition team on the remote barren island with a protective shelter of 2 upturned lifeboats and a veneer of sealskins, and a diet consisting of pemmican hoosh, ship biscuit, seal blubber and seal meat when that could be hunted...If all this hadn't been enough, the rescue party then attempts the crossing of the extreme South Atlantic (acknowledged as arguably the most treacherous open sea on the planet) in the remainng lifeboat - the James Caird. All the while Shackleton keeps his men going with his leadership skills and navigational expertise. His fellow rescue party undoubtedly play their part too in performing this miracle of marine adventure. Several hundred miles away their destination - South Georgia - is found. The journey is not yet over though as Shackleton and 2 others must traverse the unmapped mountainous spine of the island to the relative 'civilisation' of the remote whaling station at Grytviken. This final task proves almost the most dangerous...The fact that Shackleton's team makes it to safety and in turn returns to Elephant Island to rescue the stranded expedition (by now clearly on the verge of madness and possible cannibalism) - without a single lost soul speaks volumes for his leadership capabilities and also for this generation's incredible resilience in the face of adversity in what Shackleton called 'the White War'. The tale is all the more powerful in the knowledge that many of the brave men on return to a Europe at war in 1916 must tragically go to battle again, and that so many fall in those foreign fields.One of the most inspiring and exhillirating books you will ever read.
    • 4/5
      One of the bravest stories ever told...
    • 5/5
      Fascinating and very dramatic.
    • 4/5
      Compelling true story about Antarctic expedition in 1914.
    • 4/5
      A personal account of Shackletons doomed trip to the South Pole and his heroic return from almost certain oblivion. Well written, crisp, and eye-opening.

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