This is the first time Ernest Shackleton’s two polar memoirs have been published together. On August 4th 1914 King George V sent for Shackleton and handed him a Union Jack. South – and the earlier two volume Heart of Antarctica, describing the 1907-1909 British attempt at the South Pole – are classics of the ‘Heroic Age’ of polar exploration when governments supported such high-profile adventures as a matter of national pride. They were within two days of starvation when Shackleton and the Chilean ship Yelcho finally achieved rescue. His positivity and practicality comes through almost every sentence.Įrnest Shackleton himself gives generous recognition to his second in command Frank Wild who had the particularly difficult job of keeping the 22 men marooned on Elephant Island alive and in good spirits. He died in South Georgia in 1922.Īlthough that would reasonably be denied by the participants and scientists, the fascination of books like South is what they tell us about people, not the direction of ice drift, magnetic fields or meteorology.įollowing the tale of the Endurance and the James Caird with the story of the Aurora and her team, offers an implicit illustration of contrasting leaderships and why Shackleton was extraordinary. He subsequently led the Nimrod expedition 1907-1909 and Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 –1922) made his first trip to the Antarctic on board Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery.
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