num_pages: 120
description: Blending historical, scientific, and literary scholarship with an impressive range of poetic forms, Melinda Mueller masterfully brings us the legendary tale of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. What the Ice Gets is an adventure story, a requiem, and a love poem written to twenty-eight heroes and the mythic landscape they set out to explore but that instead explored them.
language: English
title: What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
titlecomplete: What the Ice Gets: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1916
genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 42
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press