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Shackleton's Dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica - Couverture rigide

Haddelsey, Stephen

 
9780752459264: Shackleton's Dream: Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0752459260 ISBN 13 : 9780752459264
Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called The last great polar journey the crossing of Antarctica. His expedition ended in disaster, with the Endurance crushed and the frozen corpses of three explorers left on the Antarctic plateau. Forty years later Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary, the hero of Everest, set out to succeed where Shackleton had failed. Despite the passage of four decades, the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955 58 encountered many of the obstacles that had so hindered Shackleton a chronic shortage of funds, inadequate equipment and an early onset of pack-ice. Even more disastrously, it also suffered from a clash of personalities so severe that it came close to destroying the expedition from within. Here is a full dramatic retelling of the epic Race to the Pole , between Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary from1955-58. Haddelsey explores the often antagonistic relationship of two giants of twentieth-century exploration. The clash of personalities was so severe that it came close to destroying the expedition from within. This is based on previously unpublished material, including interviews with the survivors, and contemporary diaries and letters. Included are dramatic original photographs, both in colour and black and white.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Haddelsey is the author of two books for The History Press, Ice Captain: The Life of Joseph Russell Stenhouse, and Born Adventurer: The Life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic Pioneer. He has also contributed to six titles in the Penguin Historical Atlas series. He lives in Nottinghamshire.

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Éditeur
The History Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0752459260
ISBN 13 
9780752459264
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
224
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