The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to…

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