Endurance, 1st Edition
An Epic of Polar Adventure
$32.17
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2000
Summary
“You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?” asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. “What the ice gets,” replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition’s unflappable leader, “the ice keeps.” It did not, however, get the ship’s twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island.
First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780393319941 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0393319946 |
| Author: | Frank Arthur Worsley |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2000 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
“Worsley is a keen reporter: he lingers on the import of frozen Burberry socks or piping hot hoosh, marvels at the tenacity of his fellow travelers and the particular courage of Sir Ernest, and takes pride in the ultimate rescue of the entire crew.” – Kirkus Reviews
Frank Arthur Worsley
A native New Zealander, Frank A. Worsley served as a reserve officer in the Royal Navy before becoming captain of the Endurance. He commanded two ships in World War I, for which he was decorated, sailed with Shackleton again in 1921, and in 1925 was the joint leader of the British Arctic Exploration. Worsley died in 1943.
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