Spence 642; Conrad 220; Rosove 188. Joyce was a member of the Ross Sea shore party during Shackleton’s Endurance expedition, the task of which was to lay depots for Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-17. Until Richards’ The Ross Sea Shore Party 1914-1917 (1962), this was the only first person account of ‘the other side’ of Shackleton’s expedition. Just as Shackleton and his men in the Weddell Sea experienced immense difficulties, so too the Ross Sea Shore Party met with severe problems, losing three men including its leader.