Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica - Softcover

Shapiro, Deborah; Bjelke, Rolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071353224 ISBN 13: 9780071353229

Verlag: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1999

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Book by Shapiro Deborah Bjelke Rolf

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Reseña del editor:

When they sailed their modest metal-hulled sailboat NORTHERN LIGHT safely free of Antarctica the first time, adventurers Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke vowed never to go back. But they neglected the power of the human mind to forget pain. Drawn by a compulsion to trace the route of Shackleton ... memories of awe-striking beauty ... a need to test themselves and their game craft ... and a wish to be more alone and unfettered than any other humans on Earth, they made plans to sail once again for Antarctica and to overwinter there, locked in the ice. LIBRARY JOURNAL called their story "compelling reading."

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In 1992, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke undertook a perilous voyage from Sweden to the Antarctic expressly to spend the winter there in their 40-foot sailboat, frozen into an isolated anchorage.

For their extraordinary journey, they prepared with months of hard work and meticulous planning. And when winter descended, they found what they went for: to be alone with the last great wilderness on earth. Through them, we experience fiery sunsets on snow and ice, mountains rising from mist, ethereal aquamarine ice caves. They met adversity with equanimity: destructive waves from capsizing icebergs, unexpected dunkings through thin ice, whiteouts, days on end in which the shrieking of the wind made conversation impossible, and 60-knot storms at sea.

Told with grit, humor, and poetic insight, Time on Ice is a first-class tale for the sailor and armchair adventurer alike.

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• Verlag: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071353224
• ISBN 13: 9780071353229
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304