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.
當他還是個小男孩,他喜歡一邊讀有關大海的故事,一邊做作業;在他十六歲那年,他已經是位實習水手。後來,這名男孩,也就是歐內斯特.沙克爾頓,在1990年代早期展開了他驚人的南極之旅,這趟旅程使他成為當代最著名的南極探險家。在面臨危急狀況與無法預知的災難時,他異於常人的勇氣再再顯示他是一位傑出的領導人。他在1914年這趟史上著名的登陸南極之旅,過程更是如同電影動作片的劇情精彩萬分。