South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 by Ernest Shackleton

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Ernest Shackleton

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On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent fr...

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