Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the NimrodBloomsbury Publishing USA, 1 de nov. 2005 - 384 pàgines Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were members of the expedition the first to climb the active volcano Mount Erebus and the first to reach the South Magnetic Pole, but Shackleton himself led a party of four that trudged hundreds of miles across uncharted wastelands and up to the terrible Antarctic Plateau to plant the Union Jack only ninety-seven miles from the South Pole itself. Based on extensive research and first-hand accounts Riffenburgh makes the expedition vivid while providing fascinating insight into the age of British exploration and Empire. |
Continguts
Prologue I | 1 |
A Race for Life | 5 |
A Product of Empire | 15 |
Life at Sea Love on Land | 29 |
War or an Unknown Place? | 41 |
The Making of the British National Antarctic Expedition | 53 |
The Great White South | 63 |
The Southern Journey | 75 |
New Worlds to Conquer 169 | 169 |
Waiting Out the Winter | 181 |
Across the Great Ice Barrier | 195 |
The Western Party | 211 |
Nearest the Pole | 221 |
The Wandering Pole | 235 |
Forced March | 251 |
Rescue | 265 |
A Square Peg and a Round Hole | 91 |
A Soul Whipped on by the Wanderfire | 105 |
Nimrod | 117 |
Underway at Last | 129 |
A Promise Broken | 143 |
Cape Royds | 157 |
Heroes Return | 279 |
Epilogue | 297 |
Glossary | 313 |
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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod Beau Riffenburgh Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |
Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of the Nimrod Beau Riffenburgh Previsualització no disponible - 2004 |