Karen H. reviewed on 3/22/2016 + 35 more book reviews

Extremely well researched, can be tedious but its a great book to fall asleep with. So thorough that you will have no illusions about Shackleton as a hero, but you will see his humanity and his restlessness and admire his tenacity and loyalty to preserving his men's lives, which in itself gave his voyages meaning. Also was pleasantly surprised by Shackleton's poetic nature and now view him as the quintessential Anglo-Irishman from a by-gone era.

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