[SPOILER ALERT:]

If I hadn't known ahead of time that not a single person was lost on this excursion, I would have been able to finish the book. It's a great story to recount to someone in a 10 minute conversation, and it absolutely is amazing that every man (and not a single dog) survived, but it makes for a less than compelling read. It's snowing... there's ice... the ice starts to melt... the ice freezes again... it's snowing again... ice melts a little... then freezes again... they camp on this ice floe, then that one, now on land (on ice), now again on an ice floe...

I'm very sorry Sir Ernest Shackleton, I am in awe that you managed to pull through and make tough decisions, but I can't finish your book.