The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party

360 Pages·2007·2.52 MB·English

by  Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Table of Contents
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 1 - “That Restless Spirit”
Chapter 2 - The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Chapter 3 - Aurora
Chapter 4 - Southing
Chapter 5 - The Great Barrier
Chapter 6 - Eighty Degrees South
Chapter 7 - Hut Point
Chapter 8 - “An Ideal Place in a Blizzard”
Chapter 9 - Marooned
Chapter 10 - Return to the Barrier
Chapter 11 - Mount Hope
Chapter 12 - “Homeward Bound”
Chapter 13 - “Some Way or Other They’re Lost”
Chapter 14 - “Drifting to God Knows Where”
Chapter 15 - “Whereabouts Shackleton?”
Chapter 16 - Port Chalmers
Chapter 17 - Rescue
Chapter 18 - “The Men That Don’t Fit In”

Epilogue: “The Brotherhood of Men Who Know the South”
Acknowledgements
APPENDIX: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
PRAISE FOR The Lost Men
“Exhaustively researched and electrifyingly written. The Lost Men is a brutal and
inspiring tale of adventure and endurance—and the furthest, coldest limits of
duty—thankfully chinked from the ice of history.”
—Men’s Journal

“Truly harrowing.”—The Boston Globe

“Shackleton’s memoir sits next to dozens of breathless books and DVDs about
the abortive mission, nearly all featuring legendary Australian photographer
Frank Hurley’s stark images of the team’s twenty-two months floundering at sea.
But there was a much more compelling story of a successful mission unfolding
simultaneously on the other side of the continent, and it’s finally been told in
gripping detail in The Lost Men. An inspiring, thorough and thoroughly
enjoyable account. Let’s hope that expedition now gets the recognition it
deserves, even in the absence of a glorious photographic record.”
—Rocky Mountain News

“Exhaustively researched and vividly written. Kelly Tyler-Lewis has righted the
record and told a story that, in its own way, is just as astonishing as
Shackleton’s.”—Seattle Weekly

“Cambridge historian Tyler-Lewis’s account of the ten-man party’s plight relies
heavily on the men’s journals, which are amazingly detailed considering the
physical (snow blindness, scurvy, frostbite) and mental (depression, paranoia)
problems they faced . . . the result is a gripping work.”—Publishers Weekly

“An exciting book.”—Booklist

“It’s terrific.”—CBSNews.com
“Combines historical precision with novelistic verve. . . . A harrowing tale of
travail and a definitive piece of polar history.”
—Fergus Fleming, The Literary Review

“Compelling and compassionately written.”—The Times (London)

“Impeccable . . . one of the greatest sagas of human endurance.”
—Geographical Magazine, Book of the Month, November 2006

“A first-class book.”—Magnus Mills, The Independent

“Exhaustively researched and brilliantly crafted.”
—The Telegraph (London)

“For breath-freezing drama, The Lost Men can take its place alongside the best
of the tales of extraordinary feats of icy exploration.”
—The Mail on Sunday

“A masterful book. It leaves the reader with admiration for the explorers—and
the author.”—The Sydney Daily Telegraph

“Tyler-Lewis has crafted a gripping and harrowing story. . . . Beautifully written
and meticulously researched.”—The Sydney Morning Herald

“Nail-biting . . . This previously forgotten part of Shackleton’s expedition at last
achieves the recognition it deserves.”—History Today
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THE LOST MEN
Historian Kelly Tyler-Lewis traveled for research to Britain, Australia, New
Zealand, and Antarctica, where she spent two months with the National Science
Foundation’s Artists and Writers Program. She was a visiting scholar of the
Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to
2004. She is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary film writer and
producer. She lives in Massachusetts.

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First published in 2006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin
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Published in Penguin Books 2007

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