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General and cited bibliography
Alexander, Caroline (1998). The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-4123-X.
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Crane, David (2005). Scott of the Antarctic. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-715068-7.
Fiennes, Ranulph (2003). Captain Scott. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 978-0-340-82697-3.
Fisher, Margery; Fisher, James (1957). Shackleton and the Antarctic. James Barrie Books Ltd.
Huntford, Roland (1985). Shackleton. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-25007-0.
Johnson, Rebecca L. (2003). Ernest Shackleton: Gripped By The Antarctic. Twenty-First Century. ISBN 978-0-87614-920-1.
Jones, Max (2003). The Last Great Quest. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280483-9.
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody (1999). Ice story: Shackleton's lost expedition. New York: Clarion Books. ISBN 978-0-395-91524-0.
Koehn, Nancy F. (2017). Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-5011-7444-5.
Lansing, Alfred M. (1999) [1959]. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 978-0-7867-0621-1.
Mill, Hugh Robert (1923). The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann.
Mills, Leif (1999). Frank Wild. Whitby: Caedmon of Whitby. ISBN 978-0-905355-48-1.
Morrell, Margot; Capparell, Stephanie (2001). Shackleton's Way: Leadership lessons from the great Antarctic explorer. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-89196-2.
Perkins, Dennis N. T. (2000). Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton's Antarctica Expedition. New York: AMACOM (a division of the American Management Association). ISBN 978-0-8144-0543-7.
Preston, Diana (1997). A First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions. London: Constable & Co. ISBN 978-0-09-476380-7.
Rex, Tamiko, ed. (2001). South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914–1917, the Photographs of Frank Hurley. Contributors: Paul Costigan, Michael Gray, Shane Murphy, Gael Newton, Joanna Wright. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-5719-7.
Riffenburgh, Beau (2004). Nimrod: Ernest Shackleton and the Extraordinary Story of the 1907–09 British Antarctic Expedition. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-7254-1.
Riffenburgh, Beau, ed. (2006). Encyclopedia of the Antarctic. Vol. 1. New York: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-0-415-97024-2.
Savours, Ann (2001). The Voyages of the Discovery: The Illustrated History of Scott's Ship. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-149-1.
Shackleton, Ernest (1909). The Heart of the Antarctic. London: William Heinemann.
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Shackleton, Ernest (2 June 1916). "The Story of Shackleton's Expedition". The Manchester Guardian. p. 5.
Shackleton, Jonathan; MacKenna, John (2002). Shackleton: An Irishman in Antarctica. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-18620-3.
Turley, Charles (1914). The Voyages of Captain Scott. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Wheeler, Sara (2001). Cherry: A life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-05004-3.
Wild, Frank (1923). Shackleton's Last Voyage: the Story of the Quest. London: Cassell and Company.
Wilson, Edward A. (1975) [1966]. Savours, Ann (ed.). Diary of the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901–1904. London: Blandford Press. ISBN 0-7137-0431-4.
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Worsley, Frank A. (1999) [1940]. Shackleton's Boat Journey. London: Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-6574-2.
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