Full name: Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey

Author: Nick Bertozzi Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Graphic Novels, Non Fiction, History, Biographies, Adventure, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781596434516 1596434511

Ernest Shackleton was one of the last great Antarctic explorers, and he led one of the most ambitious Antarctic expeditions ever undertaken. This is his story, and the story of the dozens of men who threw in their lot with him - many of whom nearly died in the unimaginably harsh conditions of the journey. It's an astonishing feat - and was unprecedented at the time - that all the men in the expedition survived. Shackleton's expedition marked the end of a period of romantic exploration of the Arctic and the Antarctic, and this is as much a book about the encroaching modern world as it is about travel. But Nick Bertozzi has documented this remarkable journey with such wit and fiendish attention to detail that it's impossible not to get caught up in the drama of the voyage. Similar books: Around the World by Matt Phelan The Endurance by Caroline Alexander The Pirate Hunter by Richard Zacks The Hypo by Noah Van Sciver The Good Earth by Nick Bertozzi The Pioneers by David McCullough Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen The Bounty by Caroline Alexander Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman Woman Rebel by Peter Bagge The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Shot Down by Steve Snyder Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman