From the Book - First American edition.
Prologue: "Great Shack!" --
Anglo-Irish background --
A path to fame and fortune? --
National Antarctic Expedition --
A protean world of ice --
A new and better path? --
"An east-windy, west-endy place" --
Prospects, but no work --
British Antarctic Expedition, 1907 --
Seven months to prepare --
The conquest of Mount Erebus --
"A glorious day for our start" --
"A bit of a floating gent" --
Pack ice at 59[degree]28' --
"The secret of our unanimity" --
Death agony of Endurance --
Responsibility to Shackleton --
"So now we'll go home" --
From Ocean Camp to Patience Camp --
Escape by a hair's breadth --
"We can only wait and see" --
Tension on Elephant Island --
A slight change of course --
The line that divides success from failure --
The crossing of South Georgia --
"Urgent need immediate rescue" --
Aurora and the end of the expedition --
South America and Northern Russia --
Epilogue: The Fourth Presence.