South is the particular story that Shackleton made of his expedition, but it is not a book of trips or adventures, it is a manual of resource management, optimism and peace. Only with that peace can you drift on a plate of ice for months, going hungry, thirsty, cold, not knowing what will be of you and your people and keep optimism at all times. After reading South it is clear that this individual could not learn or study the way he had to manage the morale of desperate people, to appease possible riots and to harmonize an exaggeratedly dantesca situation that closes each page, such as the ice sheet. about The Endurance: that ability carried it inside like blood.