He is regarded as one of History’s favorite sons and one of the greatest leaders ever to live, and now polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been honored by the establishment of a special ...

Shackleton brought everything from trashy novels to accounts of Arctic rescues with him to Antarctica. The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers When Ernest Shackleton ...

That prompted a downpour of books about survival and tragedy at sea. They ranged from the nail-biting saga of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton to a Son-of-“Storm” book about parachuting rescuers ...

THE SHIP BENEATH THE ICE: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. By Mensun Bound. Mariner Books. 416 pages. $35. That old proverb your mother taught you — “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try ...

The South Polar Times: Shackleton and his crew kept logs of stories about their expeditions, which they later turned into a three-volume book. This one was inscribed by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to ...