Shackleton's Boat Journey

First published in 1933, this is Frank Worsley's first-person account of the 1916 open-boat voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia after the Endurance was lost in the Weddell Sea. Worsley, who navigated the James Caird, describes launching through surf, weeks in the Southern Ocean, the landing, and the subsequent crossing of the island's mountains to the whaling station at Stromness, where rescue for the remaining men could be organised. Shackleton, Crean, and the boat's other crew are the companions of the narrative. The book is a survival memoir, not a full history of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

Bound in white cloth lithographed in four colours from a photograph by Duncan Carse. Map endleaves. Grey slipcase.