Shipwreck at the bottom of the world the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
"Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land."
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
2000, c1998.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Just imagine
- Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition
- Growlers
- Fist of the Antarctic
- Winter on the pack
- Pressure
- Face of the deep is frozen
- Ocean camp
- Mutiny
- Patience, patience, patience
- Into the boats
- Escape from the ice
- Passage to Elephant Island
- Dry land
- Open boat journey: First ten days
- End of the open boat journey
- Cave
- Alps of the southern ocean
- Camp Wild
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
