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The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton, is a unique and fully illustrated account of Shackleton's death and burial in South Georgia from the personal point of view of a seaman on the Quest Expedition by the name of George Ross.
George joined the Quest Expedition, at a place called Leith Harbour, in South Georgia, with the position donkey-man (a person in charge of a ships engine room) and he explains in detail the daily running of the ship after Shackleton's death as a first hand account from a below decks crew members point of view.
Along with George's first hand account the book covers both the funeral arrangements, the Shetland Pallbearers, a short history of Shackleton's Scouts, and the speeches at the unveiling of the Shacketon memorial.
This along with photos, maps, paintings and drawings of the expedition, crew, ship, Grytviken church, funeral and grave.
To finish off the book the book contains an interview with the late Ernest Shackleton where he explains in his own words how his life at sea started and how he would like to be remembered.
Contents
Foreword 5
Chapter I. 10
The George Ross story
Chapter II. 25
Heading for the South
Chapter III. 35
Blocked in the Ice.
Chapter IV. 43
Heading For Elephant Isle
Chapter V. 54
The Loneliest Island in the World
Tristan Da Cunha
Chapter VI. 70
At Ascension
Maps 73
Photos 78
Shackleton, his Funeral and the 94
Shetland Pallbearers
Leonard Duncan Albert Hussey 139
Shackleton's Scouts 150
Speeches at the unveiling of the 158
Shackleton Memorial
How I began by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton 178
