South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, credited to Ernest Shackleton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, by Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic, to the Ross Sea south of the Pacific, by way of the Pole. It set out from London on 1 August 1914, and reached the Weddell Sea on January 10, 1915, where the pack ice closed in on the Endurance. The ship was broken by the ice on 27 October 1915. The 28 crew members managed to flee to Elephant Island, bringing three small boats with them. Shackleton and five other men managed to reach the southern coast of South Georgia in one of the small boats (in a real epic journey). Shackleton managed to rescue all of the stranded crew from Elephant Island without loss in the Chilean's navy seagoing steam tug Yelcho, on August 30, 1916, in the middle of the Antarctic winter. (Summary from Wikipedia) As the last section of this project we include a short original recording by Ernest Shackleton about his 1907 "Nimrod" or British Artic expedition. Read by Librivox volunteers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
• Author credits: Ernest Shackleton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 15:32:34

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• exploration
• south pole

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 00 - Preface — 22:31
2. 01 - Chapter I: Into the Wedell Sea, part 1 — 21:45
3. 02 - Chapter I: Into the Wedell Sea, part 2 — 22:55
4. 03 - Chapter II: New Land, part 1 — 26:06
5. 04 - Chapter II: New Land, part 2 — 25:10
6. 05 - Chapter III: Winter Months, part 1 — 29:38
7. 06 - Chapter III: Winter Months, part 2 — 28:18
8. 07 - Chapter IV: Loss of the Endurance, part 1 — 31:55
9. 08 - Chapter IV: Loss of the Endurance, part 2 — 30:10
10. 09 - Chapter V: Ocean Camp — 39:11
11. 10 - Chapter VI: The March Between — 11:46
12. 11 - Chapter VII: Patience Camp — 23:51
13. 12 - Chapter VIII: Escape from the Ice, part 1 — 26:51
14. 13 - Chapter VIII: Escape from the Ice, part 2 — 27:16
15. 14 - Chapter VIII: Escape from the Ice, part 3 — 23:00
16. 15 - Chapter VIII: Escape from the Ice, part 4 — 23:33
17. 16 - Chapter IX: The Boat Journey, part 1 — 22:20
18. 17 - Chapter IX: The Boat Journey, part 2 — 25:13
19. 18 - Chapter IX: The Boat Journey, part 3 — 24:01
20. 19 - Chapter IX: The Boat Journey, part 4 — 21:05
21. 20 - Chapter X: Across South Georgia — 27:40
22. 21 - Chapter XI: The Rescue — 28:45
23. 22 - Chapter XII: Elephant Island, part 1 — 21:59
24. 23 - Chapter XII: Elephant Island, part 2 — 22:28

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