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In an age when it is fashionable to forget the achievements of the great explorers of the heroic age, comes the timely rebirth of this legendary book, penned by a band of brave British men whose wit and wisdom blazes like a sun beside today s lesser stars. In 1907 Ernest Shackleton... Read Full Overview

Ernest Henry Shackleton was a British antarctic explorer who led three british expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. During the second expedition 1907-1909, he and three companions established... Read Full Overview