South - Couverture souple

Shackleton, Ernest

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0008663955 ISBN 13 : 9780008663957

Editeur : William Collins, 2025

Synopsis

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Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.'

The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s party has no choice but make an impossible journey across an uncharted landscape of unstable ice floes, stormy seas and inhospitable glaciers. What follows is a desperate quest for survival, an epic true-story of derring-do from a true hero of the Golden age of Antarctic exploration.

Against the poignant backdrop of World War I, Shackleton recounts the tale of his own battle, ‘the White Warfare of the South,’ a desperate struggle of human resilience, determination and teamwork against nature itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland, Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. Shackleton’s publications were The Heart of the Antarctic (1909) and South (1919), the second book was his account of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–16).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone – all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea.'

The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s party has no choice but make an impossible journey across an uncharted landscape of unstable ice floes, stormy seas and inhospitable glaciers. What follows is a desperate quest for survival, an epic true-story of derring-do from a true hero of the Golden age of Antarctic exploration.

Against the poignant backdrop of World War I, Shackleton recounts the tale of his own battle, ‘the White Warfare of the South,’ a desperate struggle of human resilience, determination and teamwork against nature itself.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0008663955
• ISBN 13: 9780008663957
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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