Genre: Non-fiction
Sent in by: Julie, Dorset
ISBN: 978-0753809877
Although I've read several accounts of Shackleton's ill-fated expedition, here's always room for one more version of one of the most incredible stories or hardship, leadership and survival. This book also has many of Frank Hurley's (the expedition photographer) , stunning images from the expedition, which help capture the sheer bleakness and fury of such a vast uncompromising continent. How those men survived months on the ice, eating little else but seal meat and knowing their chances of rescue were almost nil is a testament to Shackleton's leadership skills, as well as to the human spirit. After reading the book, I have only admiration for the three men who sailed 600 miles in an open boat across the Antarctic Ocean to try and save their comrades, and then spent another three months trying to get back to rescue them. This is a book I will read again as it captures an age of adventure that is gone forever.
