The cover page is adapted from Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay, a painting completed in 1871 by William Bradford. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bradford_(painter)www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
South!
Chapters (20)
- Dedication 0:00
- Preface 0:09
- I: Into the Weddell Sea 20:31
- II: New Land 1:04:55
- III: Winter Months 1:53:09
- IV: Loss of the Endurance 2:54:54
- V: Ocean Camp 3:51:31
- VI: The March Between 4:29:06
- VII: Patience Camp 4:39:32
- VIII: Escape from the Ice 5:03:55
- IX: The Boat Journey 6:38:57
- X: Across South Georgia 8:12:53
- XI: The Rescue 8:41:45
- XII: Elephant Island 9:11:54
- XIII: The Ross Sea Party 9:55:43
- XIV: Wintering in McMurdo Sound 10:50:14
- XV: Laying the Depots 11:19:07
- XVI: The Aurora’s Drift 12:32:34
- XVII: The Last Relief 13:47:42
- XVIII: The Final Phase 13:55:30
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South! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written. It details the experiences of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set off in 1914 to make an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent.
Under the direction of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition comprised two components: one party sailing on the Endurance into the Weddell Sea, which was to attempt the actual crossing; and another party on board the Aurora, under the direction of Aeneas Mackintosh, sailing into the Ross Sea on the other side of the continent and tasked with establishing depots of stores as far south as possible for the use of the party attempting the crossing.
Shackleton gives a highly readable account of the fate of both parties of the Expedition. Both fell victim to the severe environmental conditions of the region, and it was never possible to attempt the crossing. The Endurance was trapped in pack-ice in the Weddell Sea and the ship was eventually crushed by the pressure of the ice, leaving Shackleton’s men stranded on ice floes, far from solid land.
Shackleton’s account of their extraordinary struggles to survive is as gripping as any novel.