Author : F. A. Worsley
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 21,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781862547759
This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition. Written by the captain of the Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton on this ill-fated journey, it is a remarkable tale of courage and bravery in the face of extreme odds and a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers. "A breathtaking story of courage under the most appalling conditions." - Edmund Hillary
Author : Frank A. Worsley
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0857905465
On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories of all time. Even as they coasted down the channel, Shackleton wired back to London to offer his ship to the war effort. The reply came from the First Lord of the Admiralty, one Winston Churchill: "Proceed." And proceed they did. When the Endurance was trapped and finally crushed to splinters by pack ice in late 1915, they drifted on an ice floe for five months, before getting to open sea and launching three tiny boats as far as the inhospitable, storm-lashed Elephant Island. They drank seal oil and ate baby albatross (delicious, apparently). From there Shackelton himself and seven others - the author among them - went on, in a 22-foot open boat, for an unbelievable 800 miles, through the Antarctic seas in winter, to South Georgia and rescue. It is an extraordinary story of courage and even good-humour among men who must have felt certain, secretly, that they were going to die. Worsley's account, first published in 1940, captures that bulldog spirit exactly: uncomplaining, tough, competent, modest and deeply loyal. It's gripping, and strangely moving.
Author : Alfred Lansing
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0465058795
Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
Author : Alfred Lansing
Publisher : Voyages Promotion
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9780753809877
Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.
Author : Frank Arthur Worsley
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9781841580630
La quatrième de couverture indique : "This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Antartic expedition. Written by the Captain of the Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton on this ill-fated journey, it is remarkable tale of courage and bravery in the face of extreme odds and a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers. First trapped, then crushed by ice on her way south, the Endurance drifted in an ice flow for five months. After reaching the uninhabited Elephant Island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set off in small boat on the 800-mile journey to South Georgia. They then made the first crossing of the island to the whaling station at Grytviken. It is testament to Shackleton's indomitable spirit that during the whole expedition, not one man was lost."
Author : Frank Arthur Worsley
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589760905
Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition was trapped when their ship became stuck in pack ice. This is the captain's version of this remarkable journey.
Author : Frank Arthur Worsley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780070718302
Author : Ernest Shackleton
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1789506344
"We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man." In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out on an 1,800-mile trek across Antarctica. During the three-year expedition, his team overcame shipwreck, treacherous glaciers, and a bitterly hostile climate. They faced the elements on this icy continent with extraordinary determination, resourcefulness, and courage. This account by one of Britain's greatest explorers is at once thrilling, harrowing, and inspiring.
Author : William Grill
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781909263802
1892, New Mexico. A wolfpack roams the Currumpaw River Valley, preying on the vast cattle and sheep herds of the area. Their leader, Lobo possesses such cunning that local ranchers are unable to trap the pack. Due to his knowledge of wolf behaviour, Ernest Thompson Seton, a naturalist, is employed by ranchers to ride them of Lobo's pack.
Author : Margot Morrell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2001-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101200294
Lead your business to survival and success by following the example of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. Because of his courageous actions, he remains to this day a model for great leadership and masterful crisis management. Now, through anecdotes, the diaries of the men in his crew, and Shackleton's own writing, Shackleton's leadership style and time-honored principles are translated for the modern business world. Written by two veteran business observers and illustrated with ship photographer Frank Hurley's masterpieces and other rarely seen photos, this practical book helps today's leaders follow Shackleton's triumphant example. "An important addition to any leader's library." -Seattle Times
