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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... floe crumble and crack around us, we've 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 ...
... floe crumble and crack around us, we've 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 ...
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... floe was jammed solidly against her starboard bow, and another held her on the same side aft. A third floe drove squarely in on her port beam opposite. Thus the ice was working to break her in half, directly amidships. On several ...
... floe was jammed solidly against her starboard bow, and another held her on the same side aft. A third floe drove squarely in on her port beam opposite. Thus the ice was working to break her in half, directly amidships. On several ...
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... floe a short distance to starboard. The lifeboats had been lowered the night before. As they went over the side onto ... floe on which the tents were pitched was itself breaking up. Wild and Macklin rushed back. The teams were harnessed ...
... floe a short distance to starboard. The lifeboats had been lowered the night before. As they went over the side onto ... floe on which the tents were pitched was itself breaking up. Wild and Macklin rushed back. The teams were harnessed ...
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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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