Shackleton's Boat Journey - 6340

"One of the great survival stories of all time." ―Library Journal The astounding and inspiring true story behind the Wolfgang Petersen film Endurance: the firsthand account of an incredible Antarctic adventure. 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." Illustrations
ASIN: 0393318648
VSKU: 31UI560049RY_ns
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Worsley, Frank Arthur
Binding: Paperback