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SOUTH THE ENDURANCE EXPEDITION - ERNEST H SHACK...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious  elaborate and confident
of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster 
with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in
the Antarctic  seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds
Shackleton  the expedition's leader  decided on the only course that might just save them: a
700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn
hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged
ice-sheeted island of South Georgia.South tells the story both of the whole astonishing
expedition and of Shackleton's journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of
navigation ever recorded.

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