Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic

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If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs. Very good condition, pictorial boards, front hinge slightly loose, spots to upper page edges, many b/w photographs by Frank Hurley. The sea leopard’s jawbone, which measured nearly 9 inches across, was given to Orde-Lees as a souvenir of his encounter. One has very few other longings for civilization—good bread and butter, Munich beer, Coromandel rock oysters, apple pie and Devonshire cream are pleasant reminiscences rather than longings. The simple act of sailing hadcarried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities.

They hoistedthe lumber up on deck, climbed out, and stood for a long moment withoutspeaking, savoring the exquisite feeling of safety. For the ship,it was her first major voyage since her completion in Norway the year before;and for many of those on board, it was their first experience in sail.They were aware of what the men had accomplished and Shackleton rescues his remaining crew members from South Georgia Island. Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—hehad one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful. In an open sea she could make 10 to 11 knots without the aid of sails, andcould easily have covered 200 miles a day.

It is amazing how thorough these diaries are, considering the conditions under which they were kept. Más de un año después, y todavía a medio continente de distancia de la base deseada el Endurance estuvo amarrado al hielo flotando hacia al noroeste, antes de que fuera finalmente aplastado por la fuerza del hielo. The adaptability of the human creature is such that they actually had to remind themselves on occasion of their desperate circumstances. They took the forty-nine huskies from their kennels and slid each onedown to other men waiting below. By the time the Endurance reached Buenos Aires on October 9, 1914,Worsley’s lack of discipline had let morale slip to a sorry state.

But then, at the height of his tirade, Shackletonpaused abruptly and put his face up close to Blackboro’s.

By midnight they weresteaming west in the twilight 500 feet off a succession of 1,000-foot ice cliffs,collectively termed “the barrier.His ship is battered by enormous ice floes on a consistent basis and ultimately sinks in November 1915.