ShackletonIn 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. |
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Revisió d'Usuari - tomsk7 - LibraryThingHuntford is a careful, thorough biographer. This is a fascinating book, which explores the relationship between Shackleton's life on and off the ice. Llegeix la ressenya completa
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Revisió d'Usuari - bcquinnsmom - LibraryThingWhen I read this book, I was completely sucked in from page one. It is a most outstanding account not only of Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance expedition, but his earlier attempts to set records in ... Llegeix la ressenya completa
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| Títol | Shackleton |
| Autor | Roland Huntford |
| Edició | il·lustrada, reimpresa |
| Editor | Atheneum, 1986 |
| Original de | Universitat de Virgínia |
| Digitalitzat el | 1 Ag. 2008 |
| ISBN | 068911429X, 9780689114298 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 774 pàgines |
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