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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... months of deprivation and despair, what it is like to be saved. A half century after its publication, Lansing's masterpiece has a loyal and devoted readership. But it was not always this way. When Endurance was first published in 1959 ...
... months of deprivation and despair, what it is like to be saved. A half century after its publication, Lansing's masterpiece has a loyal and devoted readership. But it was not always this way. When Endurance was first published in 1959 ...
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... Month Club selection, Endurance showed few signs of becoming the perennial best seller that it is today. In 1959, two years after the launch of Sputnik, Americans were not interested in the wilds of the sea or Antarctica; they were ...
... Month Club selection, Endurance showed few signs of becoming the perennial best seller that it is today. In 1959, two years after the launch of Sputnik, Americans were not interested in the wilds of the sea or Antarctica; they were ...
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... months that Fuchs did in fact achieve what Shackleton set out to do in 1915. This was Shackleton's third expedition to the Antarctic. He had gone first in 1901 as a member of the National Antarctic Expedition led by Robert F. Scott, the ...
... months that Fuchs did in fact achieve what Shackleton set out to do in 1915. This was Shackleton's third expedition to the Antarctic. He had gone first in 1901 as a member of the National Antarctic Expedition led by Robert F. Scott, the ...
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... month. It was disappointing to lose out. But that might have been only a bit of miserable luck—had not Scott and his three companions died as they struggled, weak with scurvy, to return to their base. When the news of Scott's ...
... month. It was disappointing to lose out. But that might have been only a bit of miserable luck—had not Scott and his three companions died as they struggled, weak with scurvy, to return to their base. When the news of Scott's ...
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... months of 1914 were spent acquiring the countless items of equipment, stores, and gear that would be needed. Sledges ... month later Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The powder trail was lighted. While ENDURANCE 20.
... months of 1914 were spent acquiring the countless items of equipment, stores, and gear that would be needed. Sledges ... month later Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The powder trail was lighted. While ENDURANCE 20.
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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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