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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... hands, the Endurance is a dying animal caught by vast remorseless forces made terrifyingly immediate when he recounts Macklin's and Frank Wild's descent into the “black-dark” innards of the twisting ship to retrieve some much-needed ...
... hands, the Endurance is a dying animal caught by vast remorseless forces made terrifyingly immediate when he recounts Macklin's and Frank Wild's descent into the “black-dark” innards of the twisting ship to retrieve some much-needed ...
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... hand over hand into the darkness. The noise inside was indescribable. The half-empty compartment, like a giant sounding box, amplified every snapping bolt and splintering timber. From where they stood, the sides of the ship were only a ...
... hand over hand into the darkness. The noise inside was indescribable. The half-empty compartment, like a giant sounding box, amplified every snapping bolt and splintering timber. From where they stood, the sides of the ship were only a ...
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... hands, but his grip was strong and confident. He spoke softly and somewhat slowly in an indefinite baritone, with just the recollection of a brogue from his County Kildare birth. Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark ...
... hands, but his grip was strong and confident. He spoke softly and somewhat slowly in an indefinite baritone, with just the recollection of a brogue from his County Kildare birth. Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark ...
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... hands agreed, and the wire was sent. The reply was a one-word telegram: “Proceed.” Two hours later there was a longer wire from Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that the government desired the expedition to ...
... hands agreed, and the wire was sent. The reply was a one-word telegram: “Proceed.” Two hours later there was a longer wire from Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that the government desired the expedition to ...
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... hand and the interview, if that is what it was, had ended. Worsley had thus been appointed captain of the Endurance. That is, he was put in charge of the physical running of the ship under the over-all command of Shackleton, as leader ...
... hand and the interview, if that is what it was, had ended. Worsley had thus been appointed captain of the Endurance. That is, he was put in charge of the physical running of the ship under the over-all command of Shackleton, as leader ...
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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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