ABSTRACT
Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition (1914–1916) is the focus of this chapter. Shackleton, a long-time rival of Scott, set out to traverse the Antarctic but encountered disaster when his ship was sunk by sea-ice. The chapter examines the shifting popular interest in Shackleton and how First World War impacted the reception of this story before moving on to interrogate the figure of the hero, the role of the ship as a home place for the explorers, and how contemporary texts for children imagine this story of man’s survival in the wilderness.
