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Title: South!

Author: Sir Ernest Shackleton

Release Date: February 2004 [eBook #5199]
[Most recently updated January 4, 2005]

Language: English

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SOUTH!

THE STORY OF
SHACKLETON'S LAST EXPEDITION
1914-1917

BY SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON C.V.O.

TO

MY COMRADES

WHO FELL IN THE WHITE WARFARE
OF THE SOUTH AND ON THE
RED FIELDS OF FRANCE
AND FLANDERS

CONTENTS

I. INTO THE WEDDELL SEA
II. NEW LAND
III. WINTER MONTHS
IV. LOSS OF THE 'ENDURANCE'
V. OCEAN CAMP
VI. THE MARCH BETWEEN
VII. PATIENCE CAMP
VIII. ESCAPE FROM THE ICE
IX. THE BOAT JOUY
X. ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA
XI. THE RESCUE
XII. ELEPHANT ISLAND
XIII. THE ROSS SEA PARTY
XIV. WINTERING IN McMURDO SOUND
XV. LAYING THE DEPOTS
XVI. THE 'AURORA'S' DRIFT
XVII. THE LAST RELIEF
XVIII. THE FINAL PHASE

APPENDIX I:
SCIENTIFIC WORK
SEA-ICE NOMENCLATURE
METEOROLOGY
PHYSICS
SOUTH ATLANTIC WHALES AND WHALING

APPENDIX II:
THE EXPEDITION HUTS AT McMURDO SOUND

INDEX

PREFACE

After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, who, by a narrow
margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under
Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic
journeyings--the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea.

When I returned from the 'Nimrod' Expedition on which we had to turn
back from our attempt to plant the British flag on the South Pol