Books on Ernest Shackleton and Other Survival Accounts

BOOKS ON ERNEST SHACKLETON AND OTHER SURVIVAL ACCOUNTS

Caroline Alexander, The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.

Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance. New York: Crown, 1998.

Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, 117 Days Adrift. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 1992.

Louis Bernacchi, Saga of the Discovery. London: Blackie & Son, 1938.

Lennard Bickel, Mawson’s Will. New York: Avon, 1977.

Lennard Bickel, Shackleton’s Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press and Balliett & Fitzgerald Inc., 2000.

Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure. New York: Kodansha International, 1995.

Steven Callahan, Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea. New York: Ballantine, 1986.

Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War. London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1981.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey In The World. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989.

Capt. J.K. Davis, With the Aurora in the Antarctic. London: Andrew Melrose, 1919.

Dunnett, Harding, McGregor, Shackleton’s Boat: The Story of the James Caird. Kent: Neville & Harding, 1996.

Margery and James Fisher, Shackleton. London: Barrie, 1957.

Jim Hayhurst, Sr., The Right Mountain: Lessons from Everest On the Real Meaning of Success. New York: Wiley, 1996.

Kim Heacox, Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999.

Maurice Herzog, Annapurna. North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 1995.

Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki. New York: Washington Square Press, 1973.

Roland Huntford, The Last Place on Earth. New York: Antheneum, 1985.

Roland Huntford, Shackleton. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1985.

Frank Hurley, Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings Polar Seas Adventures with Sir Douglas Mawson Sir Ernest Shackleton. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1925.

L. D. Hussey, South with Shackleton. London: Sampson Low, 1949.

Ernest Joyce, The South Polar Trail: The Log of the Imperial Trans- Antarctic Expedition. London: Duckworth, 1929.

Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

Helen Klaben with Beth Day, Hey, I’m Alive! New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Ruth Anne Kocour with Michael Hodgson, Facing the Extreme: One Woman’s Story of True Courage, Death-Deying Survival, and Her Quest for the Summit. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. New York: Villard, 1997.

Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1959.

Edward E. Leslie, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Margery and James Fisher, Shackleton and the Antarctic. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1958.

Norman Maclean. Young Men and Fire: A True Story of the Mann Gulch Fire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Michael McCurdy, Trapped by the Ice! Shackleton’s Amazing Antarctic Adventure. New York: Walker, 1997.

William Laird McKinlay, Karluk: The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977.

Hugh Robert Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann, 1923.

Richard G. Mitchell, Jr., Mountain Experience: The Psychology and Sociology of Adventure. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.

James Murray and George Marston, Antarctic Days: Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life by Two of Shackleton’s Men. London: Andrew Melrose, 1913.

James Nalepka and Steven Callahan, Capsized: The True Story of Four Men Adrift for 119 Days. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Peter Potterfield, In The Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1996.

Christopher Ralling, Shackleton, Greatest of All British Polar Explorers. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985.

Piers Paul Read, ALIVE: The Story of the Andes Survivors. New York: Avon Books, 1975.

R. W. Richards, The Ross Sea Shore Party. Cambridge: Scott Polar Research Institute, 1962.

Capt. Robert F. Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery. London: Macmillian, 1905.

Ernest Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909.

Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.

Ernest Shackleton, South—The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition. London, William Heinemann, 1919.

Sir Ernest Shackleton, edited by Peter King, South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914-1917. North Pomfret, Vermont Trafalgar Square, 1992.

Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account of One Man’s Miraculous Survival. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster, Crossing Antarctica. New York: Alfred A. Knofp, 1992.

George R. Stewart, Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

John Thomson, Shackleton’s Captain: A Biography of Frank Worsley. Toronto: Mosaic Press, 1999.

Robert Trumbull, The Raft: The Courageous Story of Three Naval Airmen against the Sea. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992.

Frank Wild, Shackleton’s Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest, From the Official Journal and Private Diary Kept by Dr. A. H. Macklin. London, Cassell Co., 1923.

Edward Wilson, Diary of the Discovery Expedition. New York: Humanities Press, 1967.

F. A. Worsley, Shackleton’s Boat Journey. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.

F. A. Worsley, Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure. New York: W.W. Norton, 1931.