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South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917

South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917

Ernest Shackleton
Shackleton's own account of the Endurance expedition. Less polished than Lansing's version but more immediate — the voice of the man making the decisions, not the historian reconstructing them.
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Publisher William Heinemann
Published 1905
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