South (Shackleton's Last Expedition): Illustrated 100th Anniversary Edition Paperback – July 4, 2020

"South" is an excellent read. It is like reading directly from his personal journal. There is not any"fluff" or unnecessary descriptions. Everything is short and to the point. I enjoyed the writing style because I don't like very much wasted descriptions. For example, The size, weight, and style of the ship is good information to know The color, tones, the width of the lumber, etc. are more details than I want to know. I completely enjoyed the masculine tone and writing style.

I read this book years earlier and bought this copy as a birthday gift for a family member. It’s a true story of adventure bravery and yes Endurance, the name of Shacleton’s ship. Coincidently, just recently after having been “lost” for more than a hundred years, the Endurance was found. A truly great story.

Very good and in Unused Condition!

This is Shackelton's own account of the journey. It was a good second book to read on the subject, but i would suggest reading "The Endurance" first. Shackelton didn't brag in his book and so underplays what he accomplished. The Endurance gives more of account of the entire journey

Great

Arguably the greatest rescue mission in history (with all due respect to the crew of Apollo 13 lunar mission).Written directly by the hand of legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, this book takes you on this impossible 2+ year epic of survival, with not one life lost. You feel as if you are with the crew of Endurance, overcoming starvation and the extreme environment of Antarctica.Definitely in the top 3 books I’ve ever read in my 73 years on earth…ya just gotta get it….incredible!!

I appreciated having a hardcover of this book but the binding is cheap and clearly a POD product and so I felt a bit cheated on quality.

This is a Kindle-specific review by AGB.Value for money: A very comprehensive edition of this adventure classic (though not without some faults).Presentation and Format: The overall layout is good, though the bulk of the text is rather over-indented from the left margin.Cover etc.: There's an attractive cover, plus an entire set of the great illustrations at the beginning of the book.Opening Linked Table of Contents: This is pretty good. But it unaccountably doesn't include a link either to the Illustrations (Location 59-60) or, more importantly, Shackleton's own Preface (Location 502-13) - you'll have to find and Bookmark them yourself.(Note, the "Linked ToC" enables you skip to predetermined points in the file - individual books, chapter openings etc. Without a good one, a long or very technical work can be tiresome to navigate on the Kindle.)Metadata("Metadata" refers to some hidden coding that publishers insert into the text file to enable Kindle to list and display correctly the essentials of the book - Author, Title etc. Kindle owners are able to correct indexing errors - which are very, very common - via a 3rd party software program called "Mobi2Mobi", but is both annoying and time-consuming to have to do so. )Author: This is correctly set.(General Note: although Kindle displays author names in the form "Bram Stoker", in order for him to be positioned in the Kindle Author List under "S" for Stoker rather than B" for Bram, the Metadata must be set by the publisher in the form "Stoker, Bram". )Title: The book will Title Index under "M" for "MGA7....." rather than "S" for "South!"(General Note: although Kindle knows to ignore an opening "The" in a title, it simple takes the first proper word in the metadata title to index the book. Publishers often include words before the proper title of the book that lead Kindle to place it misleadingly in your displayed Title List.)Search: Works normally.Lookup: Works normally.(General Note: for reasons I don't yet quite understand, a number of Kindle format books - usually at the less expensive end of the range - don't allow Search or Lookup to work properly.)

Only read the first chapter and very good so far 😊

Its a good book ,but I expected it to have a sleeve ? hard backs don,t seem right without one.

Considering this was a special 100th Anniversary Edition of this book.I was very disappointed. The pages do not lay flat and the book itself is warped. The illustrations are nowhere as good a quality as shown on the read sample. The written text itself by Shackleton is very well written, interesting, flowing and easy to read, for this I would give 5 stars. However the poor quality of this book in my view let this edition down.