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
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Canopus tends and guards and instructs." The book contains a 30-page afterword in which Lessing states that "The Making of the Representative for Planet 8" and the previous book in this series, "The Sirian Experiments" were inspired by her 50-year fascination in the ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition of Robert Falcon Scott, though not, she points out, by the element of ice and polar conditions in itself. Lessing expresses a concern that Scott and his explorers, heroes in their day, were vilified by recent generations. She analyses the disastrous expedition and the changes as to how it, and Scott himself, have