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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... felt the needlelike sting of the freezing salt spray as the men cling to their wave-tossed cockleshells, and, finally, we've experienced the exaltation of knowing, after months of deprivation and despair, what it is like to be saved. A ...
... felt the needlelike sting of the freezing salt spray as the men cling to their wave-tossed cockleshells, and, finally, we've experienced the exaltation of knowing, after months of deprivation and despair, what it is like to be saved. A ...
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... felt that the book's greatest strength was the attention Lansing gave to Shackleton's men. “He does not allow the brooding, complex character of the leader to overshadow the rest. Shackleton, to be sure, is there. But for once, too, the ...
... felt that the book's greatest strength was the attention Lansing gave to Shackleton's men. “He does not allow the brooding, complex character of the leader to overshadow the rest. Shackleton, to be sure, is there. But for once, too, the ...
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... felt immense relief at being away from the doomed ship, and few if any of them would have returned to her voluntarily. However, a few unfortunate souls were ordered back to retrieve various items. One was Alexander Macklin, a stocky ...
... felt immense relief at being away from the doomed ship, and few if any of them would have returned to her voluntarily. However, a few unfortunate souls were ordered back to retrieve various items. One was Alexander Macklin, a stocky ...
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... felt obliged to provide for his wife in the manner to which she was accustomed. The Antarctic and financial security became more or less synonymous in Shackleton's thinking. He felt that success here—some marvelous stroke of daring, a ...
... felt obliged to provide for his wife in the manner to which she was accustomed. The Antarctic and financial security became more or less synonymous in Shackleton's thinking. He felt that success here—some marvelous stroke of daring, a ...
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... felt that the privilege of being taken along was itself almost compensation enough, especially for the scientists for whom the undertaking offered an unmatched opportunity for research in their fields. Shackleton built the crew list ...
... felt that the privilege of being taken along was itself almost compensation enough, especially for the scientists for whom the undertaking offered an unmatched opportunity for research in their fields. Shackleton built the crew list ...
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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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