TY - BOOK AU - Buckley,James TI - Who was Ernest Shackleton? T2 - Who was ...? SN - 9780448479316 (pbk.) AV - G875.S5 B83 2013 U1 - 919.89B 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York PB - Grosset & Dunlap KW - Shackleton, Ernest Henry, KW - Explorers KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Juvenile literature KW - Antarctica KW - Discovery and exploration KW - British N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - "As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton's incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s made him one of the most famous explorers of modern times. His courage in the face of dangerous conditions and unforeseeable tragedies reveal the great leader that he was. His historic 1914 journey aboard the Endurance has all the drama of an action movie"-- ER -