In the canon
South: The Endurance Expedition
Ernest Shackleton
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1919
- Pages
- Pages 400
The ice takes the ship slowly, and that is the horror of it: for months the Endurance is held fast in the Weddell Sea, groaning as the floes close on her, until her sides give way and she is drawn down. Shackleton , who stood on the floe and watched, reports the whole catastrophe in the flat courteous prose of a man filing a return.
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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