ShackletonAtheneum, 1986 - 774 pàgines In 1915, while the Great War embroiled Europe, the world waited for news of the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's latest expedition but had given him up for lost. Shackleton's near-miraculous survival for nine months on the ice-packed Antarctic seas -- capped with an open-boat journey across more than 700 miles of the most dangerous weather in the South Atlantic -- has made him synonymous with courage and endurance. Roland Huntford, acclaimed biographer of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, masterfully chronicles the life of one of the last great Edwardian heroes, from his Anglo-Irish childhood to his rivalry with Scott and Amundsen in the quest for the pole. Although Shackleton was knighted for having reached "Farthest South," a hundred miles from his goal, in 1909, he was as much a social adventurer as an explorer, not to mention an inveterate womanizer and dubious financier. Whatever the mix of hero and rogue in his character, as one of his colleagues summed him up, "When you are in a hopeless situation, when there seems no way out, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton." Book jacket. |
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... England's employer ; but he could not give orders , only directives . On the bridge , the captain was absolute master . Shackleton had broken the law of the sea , and he knew it . England stopped the engines and , once again , he and ...
... England's employer ; but he could not give orders , only directives . On the bridge , the captain was absolute master . Shackleton had broken the law of the sea , and he knew it . England stopped the engines and , once again , he and ...
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... England was oppressed by worries for which he was not prepared . Methodical and precise , he found Shackleton's personality distressingly anti- pathetic . Antagonism was exacerbated by their having been forced to share a tiny cabin for ...
... England was oppressed by worries for which he was not prepared . Methodical and precise , he found Shackleton's personality distressingly anti- pathetic . Antagonism was exacerbated by their having been forced to share a tiny cabin for ...
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... England had shown stronger nerve earlier on , all the trouble now would have been saved . For the first time , there was a heavy running swell , and an intermittent , treacherous wind . England kept in the offing , coming in when the ...
... England had shown stronger nerve earlier on , all the trouble now would have been saved . For the first time , there was a heavy running swell , and an intermittent , treacherous wind . England kept in the offing , coming in when the ...
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Prologue Great Shack | 3 |
AngloIrish background | 4 |
Round the Horn | 13 |
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