Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey until his proposed "Plan of Imperial trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916". The main storyline begins with then Lieutenant, Ernest Shackleton, on the Discovery Expedition of 1901 led by Robert Falcon Scott. Bertozzi then takes the reader through the time leading up to the main expedition, including Shackleton's funding efforts along with his wife Emily's trepidation over the journey. Moving forward Bertozzi gets to the stranding of the 28 member crew when their ship the Endurance becomes lodged in the ice. At this point Bertozzi begins to highlight the crew's attitude as they play soccer on the ice and hold theatrical performances as
Fanny Campbell, the Female Pirate Captain voyage, Lovell asks Campbell to marry him. Campbell says she will marry Lovell when he returns from his second voyage. In 1775, just before the American Revolution, William Lovell and ten other Americans, are seized and put in irons by the captain and crew of the British ship the Constance, which sets sail for Cuba. Fanny Campell decides to rescue her fiancé. She dresses as a man, calls herself Channing, and signs on as a deckhand on the Constance. On board the ship, rumors begin to circulate that the captain is going to take the entire crew to England and