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The lost men : the harrowing saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea party

An account of the support group that was dispatched to assist Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 crossing of the Antarctic describes how the Ross Sea ship was lost in a gale, stranding ten men without supplies or a hope of rescue
Print Book, English, 2006
Viking, New York, 2006
Nonfiction
366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780670034123, 9780143038511, 0670034126, 0143038516
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"That restless spirit"
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition
Aurora
Southing
The great barrier
Eighty degrees south
Hut point
"An ideal place in a blizzard"
Marooned
Return to the barrier
Mount hope
"Homeward bound"
"Some way or other they're lost"
"Drifting to God knows where"
"Whereabouts Shackleton?"
Port Chalmers
Rescue
"The men that don't fit in"
Epilogue : "The brotherhood of men who know the south."