Endurance

Endurance

Einband:
Poche format B
EAN:
9780753809877
Untertitel:
The true story of Shackleton's incredible voyage to the Antarctic
Genre:
Briefe & Biografien
Autor:
Alfred Lansing
Herausgeber:
Orion
Anzahl Seiten:
304
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.07.2003
ISBN:
0753809877

Informationen zum Autor Alfred Lansing was a native of Chicago. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at North Western University, Illinois and majored in journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois. He then joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer. Endurance was his first book. He died in 1975. Frank Hurley was an Australian photographer. From 1911-14 he accompanied Douglas Mawson on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition and was one of the party that sledged to the South Pole. On his return he was recruited for Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition. He died in Sydney in 1962 at the age of 71. Klappentext Reconstruction of the final voyage of Endurance, taken from Ernest Shackleton and his companions' diaries and also interviews with the survivors following their incredible trip to the Antarctic. Film rights have already been sold and Liam Neeson is predicted to star. Also serial rights have been sold to the "Daily Mail". "A superb and very readable account of the greatest survival story of all time" Sir Chris Bonington. An audio will also be published to coincide. Vorwort Discover the truth about ENDURANCE in this superb true story of adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. 'Superb ... the greatest survival story of all time' Sir Chris Bonington Zusammenfassung Discover the truth about ENDURANCE in this superb true story of adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. 'Superb ... the greatest survival story of all time' Sir Chris Bonington 'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination. The story is gripping and the book is a classic' Sir Ranulph Fiennes ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. ...

Vorwort
Discover the truth about ENDURANCE in this superb true story of adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas.
'Superb ... the greatest survival story of all time' Sir Chris Bonington

Klappentext
Reconstruction of the final voyage of Endurance, taken from Ernest Shackleton and his companions' diaries and also interviews with the survivors following their incredible trip to the Antarctic. Film rights have already been sold and Liam Neeson is predicted to star. Also serial rights have been sold to the "Daily Mail". "A superb and very readable account of the greatest survival story of all time" Sir Chris Bonington. An audio will also be published to coincide.


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