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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... wanted to get back alive . On 28 December - Innocents ' day , as Wilson recorded - the noon sight put them at 82 ° 10'south latitude . They had crossed the magic circle , at last . " I led , " Shackleton remembered to write . That meant ...
... wanted to get back alive . On 28 December - Innocents ' day , as Wilson recorded - the noon sight put them at 82 ° 10'south latitude . They had crossed the magic circle , at last . " I led , " Shackleton remembered to write . That meant ...
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... wanted , because he wanted more for the voyage back . As Priestley wrote , If Capt . England refuses to . . . give us any more I don't know what we shall do . The hut was in fact virtually complete , but it 216 Shackleton.
... wanted , because he wanted more for the voyage back . As Priestley wrote , If Capt . England refuses to . . . give us any more I don't know what we shall do . The hut was in fact virtually complete , but it 216 Shackleton.
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... wanted to do in the case of Nimrod . As captain , he wanted John King Davis ; but Davis thought the whole enterprise foredoomed , and refused . So , as on Nimrod , Shackleton had to make do with a second choice , and put Frank Worsley ...
... wanted to do in the case of Nimrod . As captain , he wanted John King Davis ; but Davis thought the whole enterprise foredoomed , and refused . So , as on Nimrod , Shackleton had to make do with a second choice , and put Frank Worsley ...
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Prologue Great Shack | 3 |
AngloIrish background | 4 |
Round the Horn | 13 |
Copyright | |
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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