SHACKLETONS HEROES (PB)

Told in its entirety for the first time, this is the staggering tale of the six members of the Mount Hope Party, who were sent by Shackleton to lay food depots for his journey across the Great Ice Barrier on his ill-fated 1914-18 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Theirs was a vital mission: without it, Shackleton was destined for failure. In intimate, often excruciating detail, the book draws on previously unpublished diaries to recount a story of exhaustion, starvation and crippling frostbite faced down with humour, camaraderie and devotion to duty, as, bound by duty to Shackleton, the polar adventurers struggled on through Antarctica.