ENDURANCE: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

Lansing, Alfred

Verlag: Readers Union, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1961

1961 Readers Union Book Club Edition; 269 pages, illustrated 8 b/w photographs, double page map in text. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket slightly grubby as usual, pages edges browned, contents clean. A very nice copy. Ernest Shackleton's third Antarctic expedition sailed from London. His ship was the Endurance, but little did her complement know that their own Endurance would be tested to the full after the ship was trapped in the ice in the Weddell Sea late in 1915 and had to be abandoned. This was the beginning of a struggle for survival, with 28 men with three small boats striking out by sledge and boat across the hazardous Weddel Sea for Elephant Island. Their journey took from Christmas 1915 to April 1916. From the island Shackleton, with a crew of five others, left on April 24 to sail one of the small boats to South Georgia, which they reached on May 10. This has become one of the epic small boat voyages of all time, but it was to be the end of August before the remaining survivors could be rescued from Elephant Island. A remarkable story of beating all the odds. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3691. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3691

Bibliografische Details

Titel: ENDURANCE: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.
Verlag: Readers Union, Hodder and Stoughton, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1961
Einband: Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good
Auflage: Book Club Edition.