Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition
Subtitle: The Voyage of the Nimrod
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, U.S.A
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781582346113
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: History - General History; History; History: World; Expeditions & Discoveries; Historical Geography; Polar Regions; History / Historical Geography; (1907-1909); 1874-1922; Antarctica; British Antarctic Expedition; Discovery and exploration; Shackleton, Ernest Henry,; Sir,; Travel
First sentence: One can only assume that most of the new inhabitants of Cape Royds had an unusual combination of ebullience and trepidation that night in February 1908.
Notes: Includes 16 p. of black and white plates.
Table of contents: title: Maps
pagenum: ix; title: Preface
pagenum: xv; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xix; title: Members of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09
pagenum: xxiii; title: Prologue
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 5
title: A Race for Life; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 15
title: A Product of Empire; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 29
title: Life at Sea, Love on Land; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 41
title: War or an Unknown Place?; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 53
title: The Making of the British National Antarctic Expedition; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 63
title: The Great White South; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 75
title: The Southern Journey; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 91
title: A Square Peg and a Round Hole; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 105
title: A Soul Whipped on by the Wanderfire; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 117
title: Nimrod; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 129
title: Underway at Last; label: Chapter 12
pagenum: 143
title: A Promise Broken; label: Chapter 13
pagenum: 157
title: Cape Royds; label: Chapter 14
pagenum: 169
title: New Worlds to Conquer; label: Chapter 15
pagenum: 181
title: Waiting Out the Winter; label: Chapter 16
pagenum: 195
title: Across the Great Ice Barrier; label: Chapter 17
pagenum: 211
title: The Western Party; label: Chapter 18
pagenum: 221
title: Nearest the Pole; label: Chapter 19
pagenum: 235
title: The Wandering Pole; label: Chapter 20
pagenum: 251
title: Forced March; label: Chapter 21
pagenum: 265
title: Rescue; label: Chapter 22
pagenum: 279
title: Heroes Return; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 297; title: Glossary
pagenum: 313; title: Notes
pagenum: 315; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 337; title: Index
pagenum: 349