Shackleton’s Forgotten Men : The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic

Bickel, Lennard, 1913-2002
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In Shackleton’s Forgotten Men Lennard Bickel honours the memory of a group of men who carried out some of the most heroic and devotedjourneys ever made in the Antarctic. This is the stirring account of the little-known, tragic expedition launched by Ernest Shackleton in 1915 to provide support for his own Antarctic expedition that would follow.These journeys were made to set up depots across the Great Ice Shelf to supply the coming Shackleton expedition: a crossing of the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. But the group lost their ship and supplies when a fierce polar gale ripped the ship from its moorings, and had to haul sledges almost 2000 miles across the hostile interior of the Antarctic. Despite enduring unimaginable deprivation, from bad weather to disease and madness, this heroic band accomplished their mission, laying the way for Shackleton and his men. But Shackleton and his men never came and the drama of their own disastrous journey has until now overshadowed the extraordinary story of those brave men who came before them.Lennard Bickel tells the story of these forgotten heroes in a gripping account, drawing largely from interviews with one team member, Dick Richards, and from the diary of another. This new account underscores the capacity of ordinary men for tragedy, endurance and noble action.
xi, 241 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. #270222
Mackintosh, A. L. A. (Aeneas Lionel Acton), 1879-1916 — Journeys. | Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922. | Aurora Relief Expedition, (1916-1917) | Antarctica — Discovery and exploration.

Additional Information

AuthorBickel, Lennard, 1913-2002
Number of pagesxi, 241 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
PublisherPimlico / Random House
Year Published2001
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

Fine

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