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Title: Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy by Lennard Bickel, Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton ISBN: 1-56025-256-1 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A gripping story of endurance and courage wasted
Comment: Although modern writers discussing the events of the Endurance expedition have indeed pretty much forgotten this side of the expedition, it should be pointed out that Sir Ernest Shackleton himself covered it in his own book "South." Bickel has used recently found documentation and other materials to put together the complete tale of the Ross Sea Party of the Endurance expedition. After their ship Aurora was pulled away from her moorings by a storm, the men left on shore brilliantly improvised stores and equipment to lay the depots required for the planned crossing the Antarctic continent. During their sledging journeys one man died, and the survivors had to struggle to save two more (who ultimately were lost through their own foolishness in crossing sea ice when a storm threatened). All in all this is a valuable contribution to the story of the Endurance expedition. I also very highly recommend "Mawson's Will" by the same author.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Amazing other half of the Shackleton story
Comment: Having read about Shackleton several years ago I am glad to see more interest in this amazing story and people looking at Shackleton's leadership which was incredible.
I am troubled by one thing though, in almost everything I have seen and read (such as the Nova special, Caroline Alexander's Book, and Alfred Lansing's book) there is almost no mention about the crew on the other side of the Antarctica. In Shackleton's South, he wrote about checking on the men, but never went into the hardship they faced. I was disturbed that the Nova special did not even mention there was a crew laying supplies on the other side.
In some ways, I actually think their story is more amazing the story of the crew of the Endurance. The crew was to lay supplies almost to the pole and then one night a storm came in a blew the ship back out to sea and then the men on shore had a very small fraction of the supplies from the ship. They still had to lay depots for Shackleton as they did not know there were not going to make it. At one point in the book, the men start out on a sledging journey that to this day holds, the record for the longest trip in both miles and time.
If you are really into Shackleton, you MUST read about the other half of the story in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing Story
Comment: I have not read other books about this topic first. Therefore, I did not know the outcome of Shackleton's adventure. But I did learn of the endurance of the men on the otherside waiting for Shackleton. The book gives a very personal account of the men from the ship Aurora as they trek to leave supply stores for Shackleton's crossing of Antartica. It never ceases to amaze what human's can endure for exploration.
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Title: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander ISBN: 0375404031 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Mawson's Will : The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written by LENNARD BICKEL ISBN: 1586420003 Publisher: Steerforth Pub. Date: 04 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing ISBN: 078670621X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions by Michael Smith ISBN: 089886870X Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley ISBN: 0393318648 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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