South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

Experience in the polar explorer’s own words, Ernest Shackleton’s thrilling yet ill-fated expedition on the ship Endurance, the wreck of which was discovered off the coast of Antarctica in March 2022.

In 1914, Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure—and peril.

This handsome, breathtakingly illustrated edition, first published in 2016, is presented in paperback to coincide with ...