Shackleton's whisky : the extraordinary story of an heroic explorer and twenty-five cases of unique MacKinlay's Old Scotch /by Neville Peat.

An account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod expedition which attempted to reach the South Pole, and the surprise discovery in 2007 of several surviving cases of its whisky provisions beneath the base camp hut at Cape Royds, Ross Island. The book includes a brief biography of Shackleton, descriptions of the preparations for the expedition, accounts of day-to-day life during its time in Antarctica with a particular focus on food and drink, and the succesful recovery and subsequent recreation of the whisky.