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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... McNeish , he was the antithesis of Hussey . In the way of many sailors , McNeish was afflicted in turn by drink and remorse . He was , as someone on another ship said , • neither sweet - tempered nor tolerant and his Scots voice could ...
... McNeish , he was the antithesis of Hussey . In the way of many sailors , McNeish was afflicted in turn by drink and remorse . He was , as someone on another ship said , • neither sweet - tempered nor tolerant and his Scots voice could ...
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... McNeish had suddenly stopped work . He refused to obey Worsley's orders . He declined to go on . The snow was appalling . The men were sinking to their knees . The labour of hauling the boats was inhuman . To McNeish , because of his ...
... McNeish had suddenly stopped work . He refused to obey Worsley's orders . He declined to go on . The snow was appalling . The men were sinking to their knees . The labour of hauling the boats was inhuman . To McNeish , because of his ...
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... McNeish's " mutiny " on the ice five months before , Shackleton took him . In the first place , on any wooden craft , a skilled carpenter might mean the difference between foundering or not . Besides , in the strain of being left behind ...
... McNeish's " mutiny " on the ice five months before , Shackleton took him . In the first place , on any wooden craft , a skilled carpenter might mean the difference between foundering or not . Besides , in the strain of being left behind ...
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Prologue Great Shack | 3 |
AngloIrish background | 4 |
Round the Horn | 13 |
Copyright | |
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