South: the story of shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 (Dover Publications Inc.)

Hailed as "a rousing read" żeby The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1914 the explorer and his crew were stranded at the South Pole when their ship became encased in ice and crushed.

This account of their two-year struggle in one of the world's most uninhabitable regions ranks among the greatest true stories of the human will to survive.