'South' is a book by Ernest Shackleton describing the second expedition to Antarctica led by
him which is the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917. The book describes the
progress of the Endurance through pack ice in the Weddell Sea the ship was eventually held in
pack ice and drifted with it. The ship was crushed and sank. The party camped on the ice which
drifted north when the ice no longer supported them they took to the three boats from the ship
and made for Elephant Island.
