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jackfoxy · 2016-09-14 · Original thread
Or you can read South, and read Shackleton's own words https://www.amazon.com/South-ENDURANCE-Expedition-Ernest-Sha...
jpxxx · 2012-11-02 · Original thread
If anyone here hasn't, Ernest Shackleton's 'South' is basically mandatory reading. It's his own book about his own experiences, it's dispassionate and yet wildly exciting, and even though you know how it ends, you're on the edge of your seat. Superb adventure.

http://www.amazon.com/South-Endurance-Expedition-Ernest-Shac...

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