Shackleton: The Polar JourneysThis omnibus combines Heart of the Antarctic and South, Ernest Shackleton's personal accounts of his polar expeditions. |
Contents
THE INCEPTION AND PREPARATION OF THE EXPEDITION | 1 |
THE STAFF | 19 |
LYTTELTON TO THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE | 28 |
Copyright | |
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afternoon ahead Antarctic Barrier berg biscuit blizzard blowing blubber boat Butter Point camp Cape Evans Cape Royds Captain clear cliffs coast cold crack crater crevasses depot Discovery expedition distance dogs drift Drygalski Glacier east Elephant Island Erebus expedition Fahr feet floe frozen gale going hauled heavy hoosh Hut Point James Caird January journey Joyce land latitude lunch Mackay Mackintosh Mawson McMurdo Sound meal miles morning Mount Mount Erebus Mount Larsen mountains night Nimrod noon open water pack pack-ice party penguins plateau ponies pressure pulling reached ridges rocks rope Ross Sea round sail sastrugi sea ice seemed Shackleton ship shore side sight sledge sleeping-bags slope soft snow South Georgia south-east Southern Party Stancomb started steam surface temperature tent thick took travelling turned weather Weddell Sea whales Wild wind winter quarters Worsley yards