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Ice story : Shackleton's lost expedition / Elizabeth Cody Kimmel.

LIBRA G850 1914.S53 K56 1999
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922--Juvenile literature.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry.
Endurance (Ship)--Juvenile literature.
Endurance (Ship).
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)--Juvenile literature.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--British--Juvenile literature.
Antarctica.
Antarctica--Discovery and exploration.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917).
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874--1922--Juvenile literature.
Imperial Trans--Antarctic Expedition, 1914--1917--Juvenile literature.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874--1922.
Imperial Trans--Antarctic Expedition, 1914.
Discoveries in geography--British.
Local Subjects:
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874--1922--Juvenile literature.
Endurance (Ship)--Juvenile literature.
Imperial Trans--Antarctic Expedition, 1914--1917--Juvenile literature.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874--1922.
Endurance (Ship).
Imperial Trans--Antarctic Expedition, 1914.
Genre:
collective biographies.
Biographies
Juvenile works
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
120 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Clarion Books, ©1999.
Summary:
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition, when the ship the Endurance was crushed in a frozen sea and the men made the perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
Contents:
Taste for adventure
Under way at last
Long, dark winter
Ice tightens
Plan for escape
Farewell, endurance
Life at ocean camp
On the move
"The worst sea in the world"
Solid ground underfoot
Crew divided
Seaworthy Caird
Life left behind
South Georgia
Across uncharted mountains
Plan for rescue
"Are you all well?"
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 117) and index.
ISBN:
0395915244
9780395915240
OCLC:
39477773

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