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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... Sir Arthur Vicars , after a long visit to London in that summer of 1909 , " his own family don't know . He bought since the robbery an £ 850 Motor Car . " Frank had moved from Park Lane and now , as Sir Arthur ... Sir Ernest's debts 315.
... Sir Arthur Vicars , after a long visit to London in that summer of 1909 , " his own family don't know . He bought since the robbery an £ 850 Motor Car . " Frank had moved from Park Lane and now , as Sir Arthur ... Sir Ernest's debts 315.
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... Sir Ernest was on the point of throwing them overboard rather than wear them when one of his subordinates had to go without ; as a consequence Sir Ernest had one finger rather severely frostbitten.32 In the middle of the morning , after ...
... Sir Ernest was on the point of throwing them overboard rather than wear them when one of his subordinates had to go without ; as a consequence Sir Ernest had one finger rather severely frostbitten.32 In the middle of the morning , after ...
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... Sir Ernest Shackleton , A Study in Personality " , The Contemporary Review , Vol . 121 , 1922 , pp . 321-8 ... Sir Ernest Shackleton ” , Dublin Express , 15 December 1909 . " Sir Ernest Shackleton " , New Statesman , 7 July 1923 , pp ...
... Sir Ernest Shackleton , A Study in Personality " , The Contemporary Review , Vol . 121 , 1922 , pp . 321-8 ... Sir Ernest Shackleton ” , Dublin Express , 15 December 1909 . " Sir Ernest Shackleton " , New Statesman , 7 July 1923 , pp ...
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Prologue Great Shack | 3 |
AngloIrish background | 4 |
Round the Horn | 13 |
Copyright | |
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