This narrative takes readers from Shackleton’s polar expeditions, including the Endurance calamity that demonstrated his resilient brand of leadership, to his last journey to Antarctica in 1922, during which he died of a heart attack. Geiger re-examines Shackleton’s triumphs, rivalries, and the Quest’s extraordinary legacy as it sailed into history.

JOHN GEIGER the author of 8 books, including his most recent, "Quest: Shackleton's Last Ship and the End of the Heroic Age". In 2024 he was expedition leader for the Shackleton Quest Expedition that located the wreck of Shackleton's last ship in the Labrador Sea. In 2026 he was leader for the Heroic Age Expedition which surveyed the last ships of Shackleton and Capt. Robert Falcon Scott.