Shackleton

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Shackleton is more than a biography of that “flame of leadership”. It is a great adventure story; suffused with the spirit of Edwardianism.

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Ernest Shackleton was the quintessential Edwardian hero. A contemporary – and adversary – of Scott, he sailed on the Discovery expedition of 1900, and went on to mount three expeditions of his own. Like Scott, he was a social adventurer; snow and ice held no particular attraction for him, but the pursuit of wealth, fame and power did. Yet, Shackleton, an Anglo-Irishman who left school at sixteen, needed status to raise money for his own expeditions. At various times he was involved in journalism, politics, manufacturing and City fortune-hunting – none of them very effectively. A frustrated poet, he was never to be successful with money, but he did succeed in marrying it.

At his height he was fêted as a national hero, knighted by Edward VII, and granted £20 000 by the government for achievements which were, and remain, the very stuff of legend. But the world to which he returned in 1917 after the sensational Endurance expedition did not seem to welcome surviving heroes. Poverty-stricken by the end of the war, he had to pay off his debts through wiring and endless-lecturing. He finally obtained funds for another expedition, but died of a heart attack, aged only forty-seven, as it reached South Georgia.

Author/Forfatter:
Roland Huntford

Language/Språk:
English

Pages/Sider:
789

Year/Utgivelsesår:
1996

Binding: Paperback

Publisher/Forlag:
Little Brown

Additional information

Weight 0.552 kg
Dimensions 12.1 × 3.6 × 19.7 cm

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