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Shackleton’s Last Voyage: The Story of the Quest

by A. H. Macklin and Frank Wild

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SHACKLETON’S LAST VOYAGE6
PREFACE12
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS17
CHAPTER I INCEPTION24
CHAPTER II LONDON TO RIO DE JANEIRO45
CHAPTER III RIO TO SOUTH GEORGIA79
CHAPTER IV DEATH OF SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON101
CHAPTER V PREPARATIONS IN SOUTH GEORGIA111
CHAPTER VI INTO THE SOUTH121
CHAPTER VII THE ICE178
CHAPTER VIII ELEPHANT ISLAND214
CHAPTER IX SOUTH GEORGIA (SECOND VISIT)231
CHAPTER X THE TRISTAN DA CUNHA GROUP263
CHAPTER XI TRISTAN DA CUNHA[13]281
CHAPTER XII TRISTAN DA CUNHA (continued)[14]305
CHAPTER XIII DIEGO ALVAREZ OR GOUGH ISLAND328
CHAPTER XIV CAPE TOWN352
CHAPTER XV ST. HELENA—ASCENSION ISLAND—ST. VINCENT361
CHAPTER XVI HOME380
APPENDIX 1 GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, by G. Vibert Douglas, M.C., M.Sc., Geologist to the Expedition.384
Methods Employed384
ISLANDS OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN385
South Georgia.—Lat. 54° S. Long. 37° W.385
Elephant Island.—Lat. 61° S. Long. 55° W.391
Zavodovski.—Lat. 56° S. Long. 27° W.393
ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN394
Gough Island.—Lat. 40° S. Long. 10° W.394
Tristan da Cunha.—Lat. 37° S. Long. 12° W.398
Nightingale402
Middle Island404
Stoltenhoff405
Inaccessible Island405
ISLANDS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC OCEAN407
The St. Paul’s Rocks407
Saõ Miguel Açores, St. Vincent (Cape Verde), Ascension and St. Helena409
DEEP-SEA SOUNDINGS409
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS409
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS409
APPENDIX II NATURAL HISTORY411
APPENDIX III METEOROLOGY430
APPENDIX IV HYDROGRAPHIC WORK439
DEEP SEA SOUNDINGS451
APPENDIX V MEDICAL455
Notes on Oils and Grease466
BIBLIOGRAPHY473
PERSONNEL474
FOOTNOTES488
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE491