Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Brossura

Lansing, Alfred

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ISBN 10: 0465062881 ISBN 13: 9780465062881

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2015

Riassunto

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. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia,a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean. 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.

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Recensione:

"One of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read."―Chicago Tribune

"Riveting."―The New York Times

"Without a doubt this painstakingly written authentic adventure story will rank as one of the classic tales of the heroic age of exploration."―Christian Science Monitor

"Grit in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity."―Wall Street Journal

"[An] incomparable telling of Shackleton's travails."―Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review

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"One of the great adventure stories of our time."-New York Times Book Review

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0465062881
• ISBN 13: 9780465062881
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416