This omnibus combines Heart of the Antarctic and South, Ernest Shackleton's personal accounts of his polar expeditions. Heart of the Antarctic is the story of Shackleton's expedition of 1907-09, when he came agonisingly close to achieving his dream of reaching the South Pole. Appalling weather conditions and the advancing pack-ice, forced him to abandon his goal in a breathtaking race against time. With photographs taken on the expedition by Douglas Mawson, and numerous maps and diagrams, this is a fascinating record of one of the most daring feats of exploration of all time. South is Shackleton's account of a journey that began in August 1914 and ended two years later in a desperate struggle for survival, after the expedition's ship, the Endurance, was first trapped in sea-ice, then crushed. Shackleton, with a handful of his party, made a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia aboard the James Caird. The survival of the entire expedition was hinged on this last gamble...