Accounts include those of the Endurance expedition when the ship was sunk by pack ice and the crew lived on Elephant Island
'It is hard to write what I feel. To a sailor his ship is more than a floating home, and in the Endurance I had centred ambitions, hopes, and desires' ... a drawing of Shackleton by George Marston, official artist on the 1907 and 1914 expeditions. Photographs: Sotheby's
One hundred years after Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated ship the Endurance set sail for the Antarctic, Sotheby's has announced the auction of a collection of Shackleton literary and historical treasures.
It was on 8 August 1914 that the Endurance and its crew left Plymouth, sailing for the Antarctic in what was set to be the first land-crossing of the southern continent, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Instead, in what Sotheby's described as "the last voyage of the 'Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration' and the end of an era", the ship was trapped in the pack ice just 85 miles from its destination.
With their ship crushed, and then sunk, the men lived in igloos – with what Shackleton called "dogloos" for their dogs – for months. In South, Shackleton's account of the journey – a rare first edition of which is due to be part of the Sotheby's auction next year – he writes on 27 October 1915, the "end of the Endurance had come".
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It was on 8 August 1914 that the Endurance and its crew left Plymouth, sailing for the Antarctic in what was set to be the first land-crossing of the southern continent, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Instead, in what Sotheby's described as "the last voyage of the 'Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration' and the end of an era", the ship was trapped in the pack ice just 85 miles from its destination.
With their ship crushed, and then sunk, the men lived in igloos – with what Shackleton called "dogloos" for their dogs – for months. In South, Shackleton's account of the journey – a rare first edition of which is due to be part of the Sotheby's auction next year – he writes on 27 October 1915, the "end of the Endurance had come".
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