In 1984 a book with a sailboat on the dust jacket caught my eye at the Boston Public Library. From the start, I was hooked. I wanted to know how Shackleton led his crew through a grueling two-year ordeal. How he kept up morale. How he managed to get the best out of everyone- even the grouches, prima-donnas and nay-sayers. Why his team considered him the "greatest leader on God's earth, bar none." Armed with my degree in library science, I decided to find out. Over the years, this quest led to travels on five continents. On my way to Antarctica in 1995, a conversation with a librarian in Wellington, New Zealand led to transcribing diaries written aboard Endurance eighty years earlier.In 1998, to my surprise, my quirky hobby came to the attention of The Wall Street Journal. By 9 a.m. the day a lengthy article appeared, editors from top publishing firms were calling to ask if I'd be interested in doing a book on Shackleton's leadership. For more information visit www.LeadershipLives.com.