Made newly relevant with the 2022 discovery of the Endurance at the bottom of the Weddell Sea – this Milestone Films release of South is newly restored in 2K by the BFI National Archive with the original tints and toning and a new orchestral score by Neil Brand performed by Covent Garden Sinfonia, making this Blu-ray release one to cherish.

With no chance for rescue, Ernest Shackleton and five of his men made a 850-mile journey in an open boat with only a sextant to guide them across the roughest seas in the world. Explorer Sir Ernest Shackletons 1919 book documents his final big expedition, where he journeys to Antarctica from 1914 to 1917 in an attempt to carry out. The crew drifted on ice floes for months before landing on the completely deserted Elephant Island. It set out from London on 1 August 1914, and reached the Weddell Sea on January 10. Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic, to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole.

What followed is one of the most spectacular adventure stories ever-an unbelievable tale of courage and survival. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Ernest Shackleton. Contact seller Seller Rating: Book Used - Softcover Condition: GOOD US 5.18 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 Ernest Shackleton, Frank Hurley (Illustrator), Peter King (Editor) 4.20 9,777 ratings607 reviews In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. But within a day’s travel, the Endurance was trapped in unusually heavy pack ice. South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Ernest Shackleton Published by Carroll & Graf, 1998 ISBN 10: 0786705973 ISBN 13: 9780786705979 Seller: OwlsBooks, Toledo, OH, U.S.A. When Shackleton set sail on the Endurance on August 8, 1914, he planned a brave attempt to cross the continent of Antarctica via the South Pole. South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (1919) is the original documentary of the greatest epic in the history of exploration, produced by Shackleton and Frank Hurley. Ernest Shackletons account of his Antarctic expedtion in which his ship, the Endurance, was crushed by the ice, and he and his men made a 600-mile trek.

South! by Ernest Shackleton