Shackleton

  • Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer
    By Michael Smith

    The vehicle, the first motorised vehicle on the continent, was a specially adapted Arrol-Johnston car made at Beardmore's Paisley works. Beardmore was enough of a visionary to see Arrol-Johnston as the foundation for a future Scottish ...

  • Shackleton: An Irishman in Antarctica
    By Jonathan Shackleton, John MacKenna

    ... 182 , 196 Douglas , G.V. , 188 Drake , Sir Francis , 47 Dunmore , James , 42 D'Urville , Jules Dumont , 51 Dwyer ... 52 Fuller , Elizabeth , 15 Mackay , Alistair , 100 , 107 , 109-10 , 112 Mackintosh , Aeneas , 105-6 , 124 , 164-5 ...

  • Shackleton: The Boss: the Remarkable Adventures of Ernest Shackleton, Heroic Antarctic Explorer
    By Michael Smith

    Aged 16, Irishman Ernest Shackleton left school to join the merchant navy and go on to become a legendary explorer. Michael Smith describes Shackleton's adventures of endurance and survival in the Antarctic.

  • Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey
    By Nick Bertozzi

    A graphic recounting of explorer Ernest Shackleton's ambitious journey to Antarctica dramatically illuminates the unprecedented expedition that cost many of his companions their lives.

  • Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic
    By Ranulph Fiennes

    What makes this book so engaging is the author's own storytelling skills' Irish Independent 'Fiennes relates these tales of exploration and survival, adding insight to Shackleton's journeys unlike any other biographer' Radio Times Praise ...

  • Shackleton
    By Roland Huntford

    In 1915, while the Great War embroiled Europe, the world waited for news of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's latest expedition but had given him up for lost. Shackleton's near-miraculous...

  • Shackleton: An Irishman in Antarctica
    By Jonathan Shackleton, John MacKenna

    A mesmerizing new biography of explorer Ernest Shackleton, lavishly illustrated with over a hundred photographs, maps and engravings, some of them appearing in print for the first time. Eighty years...

  • Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge
    By Kim Heacox

    In August 1914, as World War I began, Ernest Shackleton and a small band of explorers sailed for Antarctica aboard a ship called Endurance. Few expeditions have been more aptly...