Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton es uno de los exploradores más conocidos y reconocidos de la breve historia de la exploración polar. Y todo ello pese a no haber conseguido jamás ninguno de los objetivos de sus expediciones.En el caso de la Expedicion Imperial Transantartica (1914-1917), que pretendia realizar la primera travesia integra de la Antartica, ni siquiera se llego a pisar tierra firme en el continente.Su mayor merito, sin duda, esta en que siempre supo en que momento abandonar la mision y dedicar todos los recursos, por pocos que fueran, a sobrevivir.Habilidad, suerte, y buena compañia son los ingredientes que siempre hicieron posible la vuelta a casa.

Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from absurdity by his heroic, terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat to a whaling station on South Georgia. Through one of the greatest recorded feats of navigation and of leadership, he overcame almost impossible odds and rescued every one of his men from otherwise certain death. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

Sin ninguna duda, la historia de supervivencia y liderazgo más grande jamás contada Este año que comienza (2014) se cumplen 100 años de esta famosa expedición. Estará presente en muchos lugares.Los p