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Ice story : Shackleton's lost expedition / Elizabeth Cody Kimmel.
LIBRA G850 1914.S53 K56 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody.
- 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
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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