Shackleton's Boat Journey

di Frank Arthur Worsley (Autore)

WW Norton & Co, 1998

Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted on an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage. All hands survived this ill-fated expedition; as Worsley writes, "By self-sacrifice and throwing his own life into the balance, [Shackleton] saved every one of his men . . . although at times it had looked unlikely that one could be saved." "This remarkable book . . . shows [Shackleton] both luckless and lucky, and supremely cool and courageous throughout. Worsley writes without heroics . . . but makes us feel to the marrow the conditions that the party endured before all hands were rescued."-The New Yorker "Worsley's account of that journey is a breath-taking story of courage, skill and determination under the most appalling conditions."-Sir Edmund Hillary

• Autore: Frank Arthur Worsley
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 1998
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 208 x 140 mm
• Peso: 259 gr.
• EAN: 9780393318647

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