Hey all, I'm interested in getting a book or two about Shackleton and his famous expedition that went a bit pear-shaped. But there are so many! Any recommendations?
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Thanks, Mastadge. I had this one earmarked, and also one called I think The Lost Men, about the people who were supplying them who faced their own traumas!
Bit late here, but I might lend a suggestion toward Shackleton's own account of that expedition, "South: the Endurance Expedition".
Your recommendation is good to see, Guidall. I bought Mastadge's suggestion, The List Men and also the one you mention! I should be well informed on the subject after those!
I'll have a butcher's and ta for your civil war book recommendation too.
I haven't read her Shackleton work but her HMS Bounty book was quite good (as I remember it, anyway).
IMO, "Battle Cry of Freedom" is much more interesting in its first half, when it chronicles the events in the decades leading up to the war than when it focuses on the battles.
