# Who Was Ernest Shackleton?

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- Book: [Who Was Ernest Shackleton?](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-buckley-jr/who-was-ernest-shackleton) ([Who Was Ernest Shackleton?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-buckley-jr/who-was-ernest-shackleton.md))
- Authors: [James Buckley Jr.](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-buckley-jr), [Who HQ](https://www.bookquiver.com/who-hq), [Max Hergenrother](https://www.bookquiver.com/max-hergenrother)
- Publisher: penguin_workshop
- ISBN: 978-04-4847-931-6
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2013-12-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

As a boy he preferred reading sea stories to doing homework and, at age 16, became an apprentice seaman. Subsequently, Ernest Shackleton’s incredible journeys to the South Pole in the early 1900s...