LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
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IN THE PRIDE OF HER YOUTH. Colour Photograph by F. Hurley 
Frontidpiece 
The Leader 4 
The Weddell Sea Pahty 5 
Young Emperor Penguins 8 
A Huge Flob of Consolidated Pack 9 
Samson 12 
Ice-flowers 13 
Midnight off the New Land 24 
New Land: Caird Coast 25 
Close under the Barrier 28 
Trying to cut a Way for the Ship through the Ice to a Lead ahead 
(February 14, 1915) 29 
The Night-watchman's Story 36 
The Dying Sun: The "Endurance" firmly frozen in 37 
The Rampart Berg 40 
A Biweekly Performance : Scrubbing out " The Ritz " 41 
Pylon Avenue 44 
The Long, Long Night 45 
The Pups 50 
Ice-pressure approaching the Ship: The " Endurance " at Midwinter 51 
Ice-rafting 56 
The Returning Sun 57 
Wild and Shackleton in the Heavy Pressure 60 
Exercising the Dogs 61 
Crab-eater Seals 66 
The Beginning of the End 67 
" Within a few seconds she heeled over until she had a list of thirty 
degrees to port " 70 
Almost Overwhelmed 71 
" The driving floe, moving laterally across the stern, split the 
rudder and tore out the rudder-post and stern-post " 76 
The End 77 
A Week Later 80 
" The wreckage lies around in dismat. confusion " 81 
The First Attempt to reach the Land Three Hundred and Forty-six 
Miles away 84 
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