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

The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration Sir 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 . The New York Times - Sara Wheeler Tyler-Lewis flags the tension between the pair from the outset, and while she rightly lauds Mackintosh's loyalty, bravery and determination, she shows that many of his leadership decisions were flawed. Throughout her book she uses quotations judiciously, wherever possible allowing the men to speak for themselves. Her prose is a model of clarity, flawed only by the occasional linguistic anachronism like "unfazed" or "angst." The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration Sir 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.--Amazon.com An account of the support group that was dispatched to an opposing side of the continent to assist Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 historical crossing of the Antarctic describes how the Ross Sea ship was lost in a gale, stranding ten men marooned without supplies or a hope of rescue. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. "Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons," Sir Ernest Shackleton declared.