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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... land either at the place known as Barrier Inlet or at King Edward VII Land whichever is the most suitable , if I land at either of these places I will not work to the westward of the 170 meridian W. . . If I find it impracticable to land ...
... land either at the place known as Barrier Inlet or at King Edward VII Land whichever is the most suitable , if I land at either of these places I will not work to the westward of the 170 meridian W. . . If I find it impracticable to land ...
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... land was sighted . This was the undulating ice front of Coats Land , discovered by Bruce in 1902 . The day's run was 136 miles ; the noon latitude 72 ° 2'S . The mood on board lifted . Endurance coasted along the land , dodging ...
... land was sighted . This was the undulating ice front of Coats Land , discovered by Bruce in 1902 . The day's run was 136 miles ; the noon latitude 72 ° 2'S . The mood on board lifted . Endurance coasted along the land , dodging ...
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... land at 7.30 a black island . Long looked for . " He called the others to confirm what he had seen . Hurley recorded , General rejoicing ! Our first glimpse of land for just 16 months & the 139th day of our life on the floe since the ...
... land at 7.30 a black island . Long looked for . " He called the others to confirm what he had seen . Hurley recorded , General rejoicing ! Our first glimpse of land for just 16 months & the 139th day of our life on the floe since the ...
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Prologue Great Shack | 3 |
AngloIrish background | 4 |
Round the Horn | 13 |
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A. H. Macklin Admiralty Amundsen Antarctic April August Aurora boat British cable called camp Cape Cape Royds Captain companions Crean December depot diary Discovery dogs Douglas Mawson drift E. A. Wilson E. H. Shackleton E. S. Marshall Elephant Island Emily Shackleton Endurance England expedition F. A. Worsley F. R. Wild February floe Frank Hurley glacier Greenstreet H. R. Mill Ibid James Caird Janet Stancomb-Wills January Joyce June knew land letter to Emily letter to H. R. London Mackintosh March Mawson McMurdo Sound McNeish meanwhile miles Nansen naval Nimrod Nimrod expedition nonetheless Nordenskjöld November October officer pack party perhaps polar exploration R. F. Scott R. W. Richards Royds sailed scurvy seemed Shackleton wrote ship Sir Clements Markham sledge snow South Georgia South Pole T. H. Orde-Lees things told Tripp turned voyage wanted Weddell Sea whaling wind words Zealand