The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton

Langue : anglais

Edité par Reardon publishing, 2023

1901037215 / 9781901037210

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The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton: A First Hand Account by George Ross when on the Quest Expedition The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton, is a unique and fully illustrated account of Shackleton's death and burial in South Georgia from the personal point of view of a seaman on the Quest Expedition by the name of George Ross. George joined the Quest Expedition, at a place called Leith Harbour, in South Georgia, with the position donkey-man (a person in charge of a ships engine room) and he explains in detail the daily running of the ship after Shackleton's death as a first hand account from a below decks crew members point of view. Along with George's first hand account the book covers both the funeral arrangements, the Shetland Pallbearers, a short history of Shackleton's Scouts, and the speeches at the unveiling of the Shacketon memorial. This along with photos, maps, paintings and drawings of the expedition, crew, ship, Grytviken church, funeral and grave. To finish off the book the book contains an interview with the late Ernest Shackleton where he explains in his own words how his life at sea started and how he would like to be remembered. Mr. GEORGE HENRY ROSS, was with Shackleton on his 1921-22 expedition to the South Pole. Mr. Ross was one of the last survivors of the ill-fated Shackleton expedition. He was whaling in South Georgia when he joined the ship Quest as a donkeyman. He was born in London and, at the start of an adventurous career, went to sea when he was 14. In 1913 he went to the Shetlands, where two years later he married a Shetland girl. Mr. Ross was one of the first men from the Shetlands to join up at the outbreak of the first world war. He was in the battle of Jutland, and was seriously injured while serving in the Royal Navy. Lumberjack: After that war he went to South Georgia. Between the Shackleton expedition and the second world war he worked as a lumberjack in Canada. Then he joined up again for service in the second war. Two of the ships in which he served as a gunlayer were torpedoed. For a time during the war he was based in Lowestoft. As well as whaling and lumberjacking, the other jobs Mr. Ross tackled including helping in hospitals and fishing. He claimed that there was not a country in the world he had not visited. He travelled round the world eight times. Mr. Ross came to Yarmouth from the Shetlands after the last war with the Scottish herring fleet. His wife, Mrs. Annie Ross, worked for more than 40 years as a fisher girl. Mr. and Mrs. Ross went into the boarding-house business at Yarmouth. They gave up their Albert Square boarding-house then moved to Havelock Road. The only thing they insisted on taking with them was the name of the house -- Shackleton House.…

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Titre
The Last Days of Ernest Shackleton
Auteur
George Ross; Nicholas Reardon
Éditeur
Reardon publishing
Année de publication
2023
État de l'article
Neuf
Jaquette
Neuf
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1901037215
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781901037210
Édition
Edition originale
Impression
1er tirage
Poids de l'article
566 grammes
Dimensions
2 centimètres de largeur par 11,5 centimètres de hauteur par 22 centimètres de profondeur
Catalogues du vendeur
antarctica, George Ross, shackleton

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