Shackleton's Men and the City They Could Not Find

In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean tug Yelcho, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island. Somewhere on that barren shore, twenty-two of his men had survived four months of unimaginable deprivation — eating seaweed and seal blubber, huddled beneath two overturned boats, not knowing if their captain would ever return. Their ship Endurance had been crushed by Antarctic ice nearly two years earlier.…