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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. First hand account of Shackleton's doomed 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic written by his "Skipper" and friend Frank Worsley who greatly admired him. Descriptive of the perils sailing if the Antarctic pack ice and of their incredible journey back to civilization to save the men left on Elephant Island and on the other side of the Antarctic that Shackleton's team was supposed to join up with. Ultimately, Shackleton died of a heart attack on another Antarctic expedition. ( ) The term epic is thrown around quite a bit these days, but this adventure rightfully earns the label. A fabulously concise and gripping account of some of the most amazing explorations ever done by mankind. This piece of history is virtually guaranteed to make any modern day human feel like a lazy couch potato, but you'll enjoy the experience. I'd recommend this book to anyone, anywhere. Worsley was Shackleton's friend, comrade and admirer from the moment they met. No one could better tell the dramatic story of the wreck and rescue of the Shackleton expedition, dipping into hero worship occasionally, but ready to defend those who criticized his hero without the full knowledge of Shackleton's orders from the admiralty. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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