South : a memoir of the Endurance voyage
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Published
New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Edition
First Carroll and Graf edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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Published
New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Format
Book
Edition
First Carroll and Graf edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index
Description
His destination Antarctica, his expectations high, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out, on the eve of the First World War, in pursuit of his goal to lead the first expedition across the last unknown continent. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice, and for nine months Shackleton fought a losing battle with the elements before the drifting ship was crushed and his crew marooned. Shackleton's gripping account of his incredible voyage follows him and his men across 600 miles of unstable ice floes to a barren rock called Elephant Island. It records how, with a crew of four, he crossed 850 miles of the worst seas in a twenty-two-foot-long open boat and how, after landing on South Georgia Island, they then had to traverse over twenty miles of mountainous terrain to reach the nearest outpost of civilization. Shackleton recounts, too, the efforts of his support party aboard the Aurora, who in temperatures of -50 [degree] and winds of 80 m.p.h. still managed to drop off supplies on the opposite side of the continent, little suspecting the fate of the Endurance and the ordeal of its crew. The harrowing experience recounted in Shackleton's memoir is also strikingly illustrated with eighty-eight diagrams and original photographs taken in the course of this incredible voyage.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shackleton, E. H. (1998). South: a memoir of the Endurance voyage (First Carroll and Graf edition.). Carroll & Graf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922. 1998. South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage. Carroll & Graf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922. South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Carroll & Graf, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shackleton, Ernest Henry. South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage First Carroll and Graf edition., Carroll & Graf, 1998.
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