Name: Shackleton's Boat Journey
ISBN: 9780857905468

Frank Arthur Worsley

This is an account of the Shackleton boat journey. The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. Written by the Captain of the Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton on his 1914-16 ill-fated journey, this book is a remarkable tale of courage and bravery in the face of extreme odds and a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers.

Shackleton's Boat Journey

Stefano Zorzi

Lasting fame is a fragile thing-it has often little to do with the magnitude of the achievement but rather with being fortunate enough to do the right thing at the right time-or to die in suficiently romantic circumstances to capture the imagination of the public.

And yet Shackleton, great explorer though he was, could probably be regarded as unsuccessful on all his major journeys--if success is judged solely by the lim- ited standard of whether a set goal has been achieved. It was as a leader of men and an overcomer of appall- ing obstacles that Shackleton really excelled. Not for him an easy task and a quick success-he was at his best when the going was toughest. The enormous affection and respect he engendered in his expedition members (often mighty men themselves) shines through in their diaries and writings.

This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-16 Antarctic expedition. Written by the Captain of the Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton on this ill-fated journey, it is a remarkable tale of courage and bravery in the face of extreme odds and a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers. First trapped then crushed by ice on her way south, the Endurance drifted in an ice flow for five months. After reaching the uninhabited Elephant Island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set off in a small boat on the 800-mile journey to South Georgia. They then made the first crossing of the island to the whaling station at Grytviken. It is testament to Shackleton's indomitable spirit that during the whole expedition not one man was lost.

Shackleton's Boat Journey

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