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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... soon after their marriage, Barbara remembers, Lansing “read something that sparked his interest” in Shackleton and the Endurance. Up until that point, the only significant book about the expedition had been Shackleton's own South (1919) ...
... soon after their marriage, Barbara remembers, Lansing “read something that sparked his interest” in Shackleton and the Endurance. Up until that point, the only significant book about the expedition had been Shackleton's own South (1919) ...
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... soon began to realize that the sheer number of journals and interviews he had at his disposal presented something of a challenge, since, he wrote Macklin, “the same men seeing the same event at the same time will often give slightly ...
... soon began to realize that the sheer number of journals and interviews he had at his disposal presented something of a challenge, since, he wrote Macklin, “the same men seeing the same event at the same time will often give slightly ...
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... soon joined by a daughter) with a series of journalism jobs that included positions at the book division of Time-Life and Reader's Digest. Several potential topics for another book crossed his desk, but none had, Barbara remembers, “the ...
... soon joined by a daughter) with a series of journalism jobs that included positions at the book division of Time-Life and Reader's Digest. Several potential topics for another book crossed his desk, but none had, Barbara remembers, “the ...
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... soon as possible. Good morning.” With that he shook Worsley's 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 ...
... soon as possible. Good morning.” With that he shook Worsley's 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 ...
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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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