Full name: Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod

Author: Beau Riffenburgh Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781582344881 1582344884

On New Year's Day 1908, Ernest Shackleton, a little-known adventurer determined to find fame and fortune by becoming the first man to reach the South Pole, took his tiny ship, Nimrod, south to the mysterious regions of the Antarctic. In the coming year, Shackleton would record the greatest achievements of his career and engage in his most daring adventures, returning home a hero.Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were they the first to climb the active volcano of Mount Erebus, but they trudged hundreds of miles across uncharted wastelands to be the first ever to plant the Union Jack at the South Pole.Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the definitive account of the British Antarctic Expedition. Using extensive research and firsthand accounts-some previously unpublished-Riffenburgh has written a vivid and gripping adventure while providing fascinating insight into the age of British exploration and empire. Similar books: Below the Convergence by Alan Gurney Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel Endurance by F. A. Worsley South with Endurance by Frank Hurley Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Worsley The Endurance by Caroline Alexander The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston The Home of the Blizzard by Douglas Mawson Endurance by Alfred Lansing This Accursed Land by Lennard Bickel The Heart of the Antarctic by Ernest Shackleton The South Pole by Roald Amundsen South by Ernest Shackleton