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South : the Endurance expedition / Sir Ernest Shackleton ; photographs by Frank Hurley.
LIBRA - Special G875.S5 S524 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922--Travel.
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry.
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917).
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
- Travel.
- Antarctica--Discovery and exploration.
- Antarctica.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Endurance (Ship).
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Endurance expedition
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Signet, 1999.
- Summary:
- "In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial, optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe. In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive. What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance. This is their story, as told by the man who led them."--Publisher's note.
- Contents:
- Into the Weddell Sea
- New land
- Winter months
- Loss of the Endurance
- Ocean camp
- The march between
- Patience camp
- Escape from the ice
- The boat journey
- Across South Georgia
- The rescue
- Elephant Island
- The Ross Sea Party
- Wintering in McMurdo Sound
- Laying the depots
- The Aurora's drift
- The last relief
- The final phase.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1919.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0451198808
- 9780451198808
- OCLC:
- 41107181
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