Publisher's Synopsis
In 1914, the polar voyager Ernest Shackleton reported a goal-oriented arrangement to lead the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the primary trip through Antarctica from the Atlantic to the Pacific by means of the South Pole. Shackleton's third campaign would demonstrate loaded with experience - and danger.
South is the striking story of that disastrous endeavor as told in the most natural sounding way for Shackleton, and delineated here with the photography of campaign picture taker Frank Hurley, just as current shading symbolism of the fauna and dazzling vistas the men experienced. Their story starts just before World War I, when the boat Endurance left from England with Shackleton and his group of six men. The arrangement was to traverse the frigid mainland from the Atlantic side, while a second group on board the boat Aurora, would arrive at the Pacific side from Tasmania and spread out supply warehouses for the propelling group. As the Endurance moved toward the landmass, notwithstanding, it confronted early ice, and the vessel turned out to be pitifully secured an ice floe, starting a progression of struggles for the men of the Endurance, including ice-covered uneven islands, frightening days in a daily existence pontoon encompassed by typhoon power winds, overcoming untested overland courses into the immense obscure, and significantly more. Today thought to be an undertaking endurance exemplary, South is the genuine story of an exhilarating polar campaign. At no other time has Shackleton's energetic composition been so widely represented with such dazzling pictures.
