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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... deck to the crew's quarters. There, two seamen, Walter How and William Bakewell, were lying in the lower bunks. Both were very nearly exhausted from almost three days at the pumps; yet they were unable to sleep because of the sounds the ...
... deck to the crew's quarters. There, two seamen, Walter How and William Bakewell, were lying in the lower bunks. Both were very nearly exhausted from almost three days at the pumps; yet they were unable to sleep because of the sounds the ...
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... deck was heaved upward and working slowly up and down as the pressure came and went. Wild put his head inside the crew's quarters. He spoke quietly. “She's going, boys. I think it's time to get off.” How and Bakewell rose from their ...
... deck was heaved upward and working slowly up and down as the pressure came and went. Wild put his head inside the crew's quarters. He spoke quietly. “She's going, boys. I think it's time to get off.” How and Bakewell rose from their ...
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... deck itself, and leaned against the bulwarks. Their faces showed the unspeakable toil of the past three days at the pumps. Farther forward, the dog-team drivers had attached a large piece of canvas to the port rail and made it into a ...
... deck itself, and leaned against the bulwarks. Their faces showed the unspeakable toil of the past three days at the pumps. Farther forward, the dog-team drivers had attached a large piece of canvas to the port rail and made it into a ...
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... of the onslaught was concentrated, the ice was inundating her. It piled higher and higher against her bows as she repelled each new wave, until gradually it mounted to her bulwarks, then crashed across the deck, overwhelming her ENDURANCE ...
... of the onslaught was concentrated, the ice was inundating her. It piled higher and higher against her bows as she repelled each new wave, until gradually it mounted to her bulwarks, then crashed across the deck, overwhelming her ENDURANCE ...
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Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing. to her bulwarks, then crashed across the deck, overwhelming her with a crushing load that pushed her head down even deeper. Thus held, she was even more at the mercy of the floes driving ...
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing. to her bulwarks, then crashed across the deck, overwhelming her with a crushing load that pushed her head down even deeper. Thus held, she was even more at the mercy of the floes driving ...
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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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