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This is Ernest Shackleton's memoir of an expedition he led to Antarctica in the early 20th century. As the book title more or less indicates.

The expedition's intention was that this would be the first complete overland crossing of Antarctica from one side to the other. This was definitely not achieved. The part of the expedition that was planning to do the overland crossing never even made landfall! And yet everyone still got to spend multiple years enduring remarkable hardship in the unforgiving weather of Antarctica with not enough gear. Good times.

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South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914–17, by Ernest Shackleton +6 comments

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