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This is indeed an extraordinary story - of bravery, determination, camaraderie and, well, endurance. But I have to say I also had some less optimistic thoughts while reading this account (the second part, about Aurora, was a bit tedious for me, hence the final rating). It just occurred to me that even though it is amazing what humans are capable of, it's also scary. Our need to explore, to know everything, to leave no stone unturned, is both exciting and destructive. At some point Shackleton notes: "Here we saw the first evidence of the proximity of man, whose work, as is so often the case, was one of destruction." All those seals and penguins killed to sustain the explorers, all those dogs that had to be killed or died of exhaustion and starvation... Sometimes I do wish that we could have left some places on Earth be, untouched and undiscovered. But no, we've already dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, jumped from stratosphere, and now we're looking at colonising Mars... I guess there's no stopping us as it's our nature to push forward all the time, all in the name of science and advancement. We've not done very well by planet Earth though...