Shackleton of the Antarctic

by T. H. Baughman (Author)

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  2009

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  Twenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe one thousand miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the ice would melt. To survive they would have to be safely on land before that happened-if they did not starve first. The odds were stacked against them. The single advantage they did have, however, proved decisive. They were led by Ernest Shackleton.