Lost Men, The

Written By : Kelly Tyler-Lewis

Narrated By : Graeme Malcolm

Published By : Simon & Schuster

Runtime : 6 hours

Categories : Adventurers & Explorers
Historical
Biographical

Price : $29.95 $17.95

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" Amazingly detailed... a gripping work ." — Publishers Weekly

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed south aboard the Endurance to be the first to cross Antarctica. Shackleton's endeavor is legend, but few know the astonishing story- of the Ross Sea party, the support crew he dispatched to the opposite side of the continent to build a vital lifeline of food and fuel depots.

When the Ross Sea ship, the Aurora, broke free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale in 1915, she left ten men stranded on the continent with only the clothes on their backs and little hope of rescue. Against all odds, the men decided to go forward with their mission, sledging 1, 700 miles in a record-setting two-year odyssey. They never imagined that their immense sacrifice was futile—for Shackleton never set foot on the continent, and the Endurance lay crushed at the bottorn of the Weddell Sea.

Inexperienced and poorly equipped, the men of the Ross Sea party endured the unspeakable suffering of malnutrition, hypothermia, and extreme weather conditions with fortitude, With their personal journals and previously unpublished documents, Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings us close to these men in their best and bleakest times and revives for us their heroic, astounding story of survival in the most hostile environment on earth.

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 Scou Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to2004.

She is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary film writer and producer. Graeme Malcolm has appeared on and off Broadway in Alio, The King and I, Lincoln Center's Hapgood , and M. Butterfly (National Tour). His television appearances include Law & Order, Follow the River , and Mr. Helpern and Mr. Johnson (with Laurence Olivier). Film credits include National Treasure, A Further Gesture, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole , and Reunion .

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