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Re:The harrowing journey to Elephant Island by Ernest Shackl... by SOMA_BOFH on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:40PM (#30012822)
"Shackleton's Boat Journey" by F. A. Worsley is a first hand account of the journey, written by the Captain of the Endurance.

No fluff in this book, it gets directly to the action. Worsley has a very direct writing style which is easy to read.

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Re:The harrowing journey to Elephant Island by Ernest Shackl... by anjbe on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:58PM (#30013043)
I concur, Worsley’s account of the voyage is excellent and highly worth reading.
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Re:The harrowing journey to Elephant Island by Ernest Shackl... by jfk13 on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:51PM (#30014758)
Most definitely agreed; I read it many years ago as a youngster, and have never forgotten it.

For a different telling of the expedition more generally, Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition is worth a look:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128731.Mrs_Chippy_s_Last...

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Re:The harrowing journey to Elephant Island by Ernest Shackl... by Dowwie on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:43PM (#30016359)
seems to go by another title, "Endurance: an epic of polar adventure"
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