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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... once the ice had begun to melt, take to their tiny lifeboats and sail hundreds of miles across the forbidding Drake Passage, one of the stormiest pieces of open water on the planet. What followed was a yearlong, almost impossible-to ...
... once the ice had begun to melt, take to their tiny lifeboats and sail hundreds of miles across the forbidding Drake Passage, one of the stormiest pieces of open water on the planet. What followed was a yearlong, almost impossible-to ...
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... Once in Britain, Lansing crisscrossed the country conducting interviews. Much of his time was spent in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, speaking extensively with Macklin, the expedition's surgeon and Shackleton's close friend. He also visited ...
... Once in Britain, Lansing crisscrossed the country conducting interviews. Much of his time was spent in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, speaking extensively with Macklin, the expedition's surgeon and Shackleton's close friend. He also visited ...
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... once, too, the carpenter, the cook and the stowaway emerge as flesh and blood. Perhaps as an American Mr. Lansing does not always understand the English. His judgment of personalities is sometimes harsh. But for all that he makes good ...
... once, too, the carpenter, the cook and the stowaway emerge as flesh and blood. Perhaps as an American Mr. Lansing does not always understand the English. His judgment of personalities is sometimes harsh. But for all that he makes good ...
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... once-forgotten survival tale was part of the trend that also made best sellers out of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, both published in 1997. In 1998 Caroline Alexander came out with her own lushly ...
... once-forgotten survival tale was part of the trend that also made best sellers out of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, both published in 1997. In 1998 Caroline Alexander came out with her own lushly ...
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... once, but slowly, a little at a time. The pressure often million tons of ice was driving in against her sides. And dying as she was, she cried in agony. Her frames and planking, her immense timbers, many of them almost a foot thick ...
... once, but slowly, a little at a time. The pressure often million tons of ice was driving in against her sides. And dying as she was, she cried in agony. Her frames and planking, her immense timbers, many of them almost a foot thick ...
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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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