In this brief, dramatic excerpt -- his ship crushed in the ice, his men marrooned on Elephant Island -- Shackleton sets out with five men aboard to seek help on South Georgia. From South, The Endurance Expedition, originally published in 1919.  (ANT256, $10.00)

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