{"title":"Books by Ernest Shackleton","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241251096","title":"South","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole.  Like the others it ended in disaster, with the \u003ci\u003eEndeavour \u003c\/i\u003efirst trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death.  In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton, the expedition's leader, decided on the only course that might just save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouth \u003c\/i\u003etells the story both of the whole astonishing expedition and of Shackleton's journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of navigation ever recorded.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201547993266,"sku":"9780241251096","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241251096_28a2dc5d-7474-438e-81bc-36136dd05a25.jpg?v=1786012669"},{"product_id":"9780486833132","title":"South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917","description":"\"Hailed as \"\"a rousing read\"\" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1914 he and his 28-man crew boarded the ship Endurance and sailed away to do something no one had ever done: to traverse and chart the mostly unknown territory of the South Pole. But within weeks of their arrival, their vessel became trapped in ice, drifting helplessly for months before sinking and leaving the crew stranded on a melting ice floe. This account of the expedition's two-year struggle in one of the world's most uninhabitable regions relates a near-miraculous escape from multiple dangers: thousands of miles, traveled in lifeboats across tempestuous seas and in unforgiving landscapes of glaciers and icebergs; relentless cold; and the constant threat of starvation. A century later, Shackleton's firsthand account of the crew's harrowing experiences and their triumphant survival remains among the most thrilling adventure stories ever told.\"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43406084505778,"sku":"9780486833132","price":19.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780486833132_c5647460-d00d-476d-9956-dd06d9635740.jpg?v=1786013870"},{"product_id":"9780008663957","title":"South","description":"HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.             Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.'          The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s party has no choice but make an impossible journey across an uncharted landscape of unstable ice floes, stormy seas and inhospitable glaciers. What follows is a desperate quest for survival, an epic true-story of derring-do from a true hero of the Golden age of Antarctic exploration.             Against the poignant backdrop of World War I, Shackleton recounts the tale of his own battle, ‘the White Warfare of the South,’ a desperate struggle of human resilience, determination and teamwork against nature itself.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56221886218613,"sku":"9780008663957","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008663957_1ace7f39-0c2a-4f97-804e-4e74d1162246.jpg?v=1785658741"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-ernest-shackleton.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}