In the Far South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914–1917
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In the Far South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914–1917
39.99 €
This book chronicles the British Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917—the second solo expedition by the famed British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, aboard the expedition ships Endurance and Aurora. Its primary goal was to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea via the South Pole.
Although the expedition failed to complete its mission due to the sinking of the steam barquentine Endurance, which was crushed by ice, it became an unprecedented example of collective survival in the most extreme conditions of the Far South.
Interest in this expedition continues to this day, and Sir Ernest Shackleton's book South has been reprinted several times in England. Several modern books have been devoted to the story of the rescue of the Weddell Sea party after the sinking of the Endurance as the most remarkable Antarctic odyssey.
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition can rightly be called the British predecessor of the "Chelyuskin epic" in the Antarctic ice seas—in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, before airplanes and icebreakers, when radio communication was just beginning, and when rescue of the perishing was largely the work of the perishing themselves.
Although the expedition failed to complete its mission due to the sinking of the steam barquentine Endurance, which was crushed by ice, it became an unprecedented example of collective survival in the most extreme conditions of the Far South.
Interest in this expedition continues to this day, and Sir Ernest Shackleton's book South has been reprinted several times in England. Several modern books have been devoted to the story of the rescue of the Weddell Sea party after the sinking of the Endurance as the most remarkable Antarctic odyssey.
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition can rightly be called the British predecessor of the "Chelyuskin epic" in the Antarctic ice seas—in the heroic age of Antarctic exploration, before airplanes and icebreakers, when radio communication was just beginning, and when rescue of the perishing was largely the work of the perishing themselves.
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