Popular history is like a polar ice shelf. It encases a certain figure, event or phenomenon in its deep freeze for ages; then, inexplicably, the surface cracks, and the glacier heaves it up: the ...
Growing up in the Falkland Islands, maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound was enamored with tales of adventure and stories of the sea. He was particularly taken with the saga of Ernest Shackleton, the ...
The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.