Arctique et Antarctique

On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for the South Pole, in a bid to complete the first-ever trans-Antarctic expedition, which would cross the continent from the Weddell Sea to Cape Evans....

In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration....

Eine Entdeckung, die nicht nur ins Eis und in die Finsternis der Arktis führt, sondern auch in die Finsternis der von Ehrgeiz, Hunger und Entbehrungen verdunkelten Gehirne der Polarfahrer...

For the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's account of the race to the South Pole in their own words....