Table of Contents PENGUIN BOOKS Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Preface Chapter 1 - “That Restless Spirit” Chapter 2 - The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Chapter 3 - Aurora Chapter 4 - Southing Chapter 5 - The Great Barrier Chapter 6 - Eighty Degrees South Chapter 7 - Hut Point Chapter 8 - “An Ideal Place in a Blizzard” Chapter 9 - Marooned Chapter 10 - Return to the Barrier Chapter 11 - Mount Hope Chapter 12 - “Homeward Bound” Chapter 13 - “Some Way or Other They’re Lost” Chapter 14 - “Drifting to God Knows Where” Chapter 15 - “Whereabouts Shackleton?” Chapter 16 - Port Chalmers Chapter 17 - Rescue Chapter 18 - “The Men That Don’t Fit In” Epilogue: “The Brotherhood of Men Who Know the South” Acknowledgements APPENDIX: UNITS OF MEASUREMENT NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PRAISE FOR The Lost Men “Exhaustively researched and electrifyingly written. The Lost Men is a brutal and inspiring tale of adventure and endurance—and the furthest, coldest limits of duty—thankfully chinked from the ice of history.” —Men’s Journal “Truly harrowing.”—The Boston Globe “Shackleton’s memoir sits next to dozens of breathless books and DVDs about the abortive mission, nearly all featuring legendary Australian photographer Frank Hurley’s stark images of the team’s twenty-two months floundering at sea. But there was a much more compelling story of a successful mission unfolding simultaneously on the other side of the continent, and it’s finally been told in gripping detail in The Lost Men. An inspiring, thorough and thoroughly enjoyable account. Let’s hope that expedition now gets the recognition it deserves, even in the absence of a glorious photographic record.” —Rocky Mountain News “Exhaustively researched and vividly written. Kelly Tyler-Lewis has righted the record and told a story that, in its own way, is just as astonishing as Shackleton’s.”—Seattle Weekly “Cambridge historian Tyler-Lewis’s account of the ten-man party’s plight relies heavily on the men’s journals, which are amazingly detailed considering the physical (snow blindness, scurvy, frostbite) and mental (depression, paranoia) problems they faced . . . the result is a gripping work.”—Publishers Weekly “An exciting book.”—Booklist “It’s terrific.”—CBSNews.com “Combines historical precision with novelistic verve. . . . A harrowing tale of travail and a definitive piece of polar history.” —Fergus Fleming, The Literary Review “Compelling and compassionately written.”—The Times (London) “Impeccable . . . one of the greatest sagas of human endurance.” —Geographical Magazine, Book of the Month, November 2006 “A first-class book.”—Magnus Mills, The Independent “Exhaustively researched and brilliantly crafted.” —The Telegraph (London) “For breath-freezing drama, The Lost Men can take its place alongside the best of the tales of extraordinary feats of icy exploration.” —The Mail on Sunday “A masterful book. It leaves the reader with admiration for the explorers—and the author.”—The Sydney Daily Telegraph “Tyler-Lewis has crafted a gripping and harrowing story. . . . Beautifully written and meticulously researched.”—The Sydney Morning Herald “Nail-biting . . . This previously forgotten part of Shackleton’s expedition at last achieves the recognition it deserves.”—History Today PENGUIN BOOKS THE LOST MEN 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 Scott Polar Research Institute of the University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2004. She is also an Emmy Award-winning documentary film writer and producer. She lives in Massachusetts. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) • Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WCR2 0RL, England • Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) • Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) • Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India • Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Mairangi Bay, Auckland 1311, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2006 Published in Penguin Books 2007 Copyright © Kelly Tyler-Lewis, 2006