South
by Ernest Shackleton
The ship was crushed. Every man survived. This is how.
For you if
you want to understand what it looks like when a leader refuses to lose a single person no matter what it costs
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In 1914 Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica. His ship Endurance became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed over ten months. The crew survived on the ice for five months, then sailed 800 miles in a lifeboat to South Georgia, then Shackleton and two men crossed the unmapped mountains of the island to reach a whaling station. Every single member of the expedition survived. This is Shackleton's own account — plain, direct, without melodrama, which makes it more extraordinary than any dramatization could be. The most important leadership and survival dispatch ever written.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Antarctica
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Antarctica
- Themes
- leadershipsurvival
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For the family bookshelf
Same idea, written for a younger reader. Good for reading together.
