Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible VoyageBasic Books, 29 Apr 2014 - 416 halaman Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. |
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... five surviving participants in the expedition, as well as writers Margery and James Fisher, whose biography of Shackleton appeared that year. Lansing realized that if he were to write a Shackleton's Incredible Voyage vii.
... five surviving participants in the expedition, as well as writers Margery and James Fisher, whose biography of Shackleton appeared that year. Lansing realized that if he were to write a Shackleton's Incredible Voyage vii.
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... appeared, as well as a documentary, a BBC film starring Kenneth Branagh, and an IMAX film. Although sales of Lansing's book initially suffered due to the appearance of these rival Shackleton books, Endurance has since reasserted its ...
... appeared, as well as a documentary, a BBC film starring Kenneth Branagh, and an IMAX film. Although sales of Lansing's book initially suffered due to the appearance of these rival Shackleton books, Endurance has since reasserted its ...
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... appeared mysteriously to lose interest. More frequently, though, the two floes—often 10 feet thick or more—would continue to rise, tenting up, until one or both of them broke and toppled over, creating a pressure ridge. There were the ...
... appeared mysteriously to lose interest. More frequently, though, the two floes—often 10 feet thick or more—would continue to rise, tenting up, until one or both of them broke and toppled over, creating a pressure ridge. There were the ...
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... appearance. He was a tiny man, even shorter than Wild, with an unassuming, pleasant disposition. Shackleton spoke of Cheetham as “the veteran of Antarctic,” since he had already been on three expeditions, including one with Shackleton ...
... appearance. He was a tiny man, even shorter than Wild, with an unassuming, pleasant disposition. Shackleton spoke of Cheetham as “the veteran of Antarctic,” since he had already been on three expeditions, including one with Shackleton ...
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... appearance, the Endurance was beautiful by any standards. She was a barkentine—three masts, of which the forward one was square-rigged, while the after two carried fore-and-aft sails, like a schooner. She was powered by a coal-fired ...
... appearance, the Endurance was beautiful by any standards. She was a barkentine—three masts, of which the forward one was square-rigged, while the after two carried fore-and-aft sails, like a schooner. She was powered by a coal-fired ...
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PART II | 75 |
PART III | 123 |
PART IV | 175 |
PART V | 223 |
PART VI | 273 |
PART VII | 323 |
EPILOGUE | 347 |
Acknowledgments | 355 |
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