Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Couverture souple

Lansing, Alfred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 078670621X ISBN 13 : 9780786706211

Editeur : Basic Books, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Lansing Alfred

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas.

ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice.

For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip. To write their authoritative story, Lansing consulted with ten of the surviving members and gained access to diaries and personal accounts by eight others. The resulting book has all the immediacy of a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 078670621X
• ISBN 13: 9780786706211
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 288