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Shackleton s Forgotten Expedition
Author | : Beau Riffenburgh |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2008-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781596918931 |
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Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and his party accomplished some of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration. Not only were members of the expedition the first to climb the active volcano Mount Erebus and the first to reach the South Magnetic Pole, but Shackleton himself led a party of four that trudged hundreds of miles across uncharted wastelands and up to the terrible Antarctic Plateau to plant the Union Jack only ninety-seven miles from the South Pole itself. Based on extensive research and first-hand accounts Riffenburgh makes the expedition vivid while providing fascinating insight into the age of British exploration and Empire. Beau Riffenburgh is a historian specializing in exploration. A native of California, he earned his doctorate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, where he is currently the editor of Polar Record. He is the author of the critically praised The Myth of the Explorer and editor of the Encyclopedia of the Antarctic. A Selection of the History Book Club "Riffenburgh's perceptive book blends first-hand accounts with original research and a fast-paced narrative, providing a cracking adventure."-The Times Literary Supplement UK "A masterful balance of true drama and first-rate scholarship. The narrative moves with the speed of a novel, while the author's unerring eye for historical detail captures the essence of polar exploration and explorers and locates Shackleton and his men in the grand scheme of empire."-Sir Ranulph Fiennes Also available: HC 1-58234-488-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-488-1 $25.95
Shackleton s Forgotten Argonauts
Author | : Lennard Bickel |
Publsiher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015001731028 |
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The story of Ernest Shackleton's "Ross Sea Argonauts" who, against all odds, laid food and fuel depots to support Shackleton's planned walk across the Antarctic continent. Marooned for two Antarctic winters, they showed great endurance and courage in a brutal environment.
Shackleton s Forgotten Men
Author | : Lennard Bickel |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Antarctica |
ISBN | : 9780712668071 |
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An account of the little-known, tragic expedition launched by Ernest Shackleton in 1915 to provide support for his own Antarctic expedition which would follow. The group lost their ship, and supplies had to be hauled across hostile terrain for an expedition which never came.
Shackleton and the Lost Antarctic Expedition
Author | : Blake A. Hoena |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0736868771 |
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In graphic novel format, tells the story of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and his failed attempt to cross the coldest and windiest continent on Earth.
The Lost Men
Author | : Kelly Tyler-Lewis |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007-03-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143038516 |
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The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackleton’s planned crossing of the continent. But their ship disappeared in a gale, leaving ten inexperienced, ill-equipped men to trek 1,356 miles in the harshest environment on earth. Drawing on the men’s own journals and photographs, The Lost Men is a masterpiece of historical adventure, a book destined to be a classic in the vein of Into Thin Air.
The Lost Men
Author | : Kelly Tyler-Lewis |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007-03-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1440628580 |
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The untold story of the last odyssey of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic endeavor is legend, but for sheer heroism and tragic nobility, nothing compares to the saga of the Ross Sea party. This crew of explorers landed on the opposite side of Antarctica from the Endurance with a mission to build supply depots for Shackleton’s planned crossing of the continent. But their ship disappeared in a gale, leaving ten inexperienced, ill-equipped men to trek 1,356 miles in the harshest environment on earth. Drawing on the men’s own journals and photographs, The Lost Men is a masterpiece of historical adventure, a book destined to be a classic in the vein of Into Thin Air.
Shackleton s Forgotten Men
Author | : Lennard Bickel |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1560252561 |
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The untold story of Shackleton's historymaking Antarctic sled ride prior to his more famous journey details the deprivation, injury, and death caused by the expedition.
South
Author | : Ernest Shackleton |
Publsiher | : LA CASE Books |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.