Explorer Fiennes (Cold) draws on his own experiences in Antarctica in this sympathetic if somewhat dry biography of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1921). Fiennes contends that Shackleton's ...

This is not so much Shackleton: A Biography as, ‘Shackleton: A Biography with Incessant Interruptions of My Own Great Deeds’. Ernest Shackleton made three expeditions to the Antipodean world that will ...

The so-called Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration ran from the 1890s to the early 1920s. Its stars still burn brightly—perhaps especially so in our own gruesomely unheroic times—with Ernest Shackleton ...

Penguin Michael Joseph has signed Shackleton, a "definitive" new biography of Britain’s "greatest historical explorer", written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Publishing director Rowland White acquired world ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Earlier this month, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society discovered a historic shipwreck in the North West Atlantic. The expedition used sonar ...