Ernest Shackleton

Name: Ernest Shackleton
Author: George Plimpton

by George Plimpton

Biography & MemoirAdventure

2003

Writer and media personality George Plimpton not only tells Shackleton's story, but recounts his own recent adventure following Shackleton's footsteps through the bleak, beautiful seas, and islands at the bottom of the world.

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