shackleton ernest henry sir cahill (3 risultati)

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxi, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Subjects; Shackleton, Ernest Henry Sir (1874-1922) Travel. Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Expeditions: 1914-17 Shackleton. W -- Expeditions and exploration. Antarctica Discovery and exploration. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxi, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Subjects; Shackleton, Ernest Henry Sir (1874-1922) Travel. Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Expeditions: 1914-17 Shackleton. W -- Expeditions and exploration. Antarctica Discovery and exploration. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. Soon after the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, his Anglo-Irish rival, Sir Ernest Shackleton, sought to top the feat by making his way from one end of Antarctica to the other on sledge. He set off with a crew of 28, including scientists and a movie cameraman, but the voyage turned disastrous when Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, became hopelessly stuck in pack ice, throwing the men (and the dogs brought to pull the sledges) into a desperate battle for survival. South is Shackleton's own account--one of the critical sources for Alfred Lansing's bestseller Endurance--of what it was like to be "helpless intruders in a strange world," a vivid narrative in which tales of Edwardian pluck are counterpointed with lyrical accounts of whales, penguins, and bizarre mirages. This story of a group of men who beat nearly impossible odds to escape death and make their way home is one of the all-time great survival stories.