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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
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The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party Hardcover - 2006

by Tyler- Lewis, Kelly

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The excruciating tale of the Ross Sea party, the other side of Shackleton's Endurance expedition

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to make history by crossing the Antarctic continent. Shackleton's story is legend, but few know the harrowing story of the Ross Sea party, Shackleton's support group dispatched to the other side of the continent to build a lifeline of food and fuel depots to bear his crossing.

"I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulties," Shackleton wrote. Yet everything went tragically wrong when the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, tore free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale, leaving ten men marooned with only the clothes on their backs and few provisions. With little hope of rescue from a world embroiled in World War I, the men decided to accomplish their mission against all odds.

Long overshadowed by the mission these men bargained their lives to sustain, this heartrending story of survival against all odds now gets its due in this definitive, surprising account of the final journey of the heroic age of polar expedition.

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New York: Viking, 2006. ------ # 013114 - The scan you see is the book you get. Blue & gray boards (roughly) 9 1/2" by 6 1/2" (inches) 366 pages plus 16 pages of photos, Near Fine condition with errant ink on bottom edge, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition now in Mylar. "Against all odds, the Ross Sea party trekked across the Ross Ice shelf to cache Shackleton's provisions, sledging 1,700 miles with scavenged gear. The never imagined that their immense sacrifice was, after all, futile." Check out the scans.. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic explorationSir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackleton’s planned crossing of the continent. But their ship disappeared in a gale, leaving ten inexperienced, ill-equipped men to trek 1,356 miles in the harshest environment on earth. Drawing on the men’s own journals and photographs, The Lost Men is a masterpiece of historical adventure, a book destined to be a classic in the vein of Into Thin Air.

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"Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons," Sir Ernest Shackleton declared.

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