Ernest
Shackleton - The heart of the Antarctic. Being the story
of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909
De achterflap:
Shackleton's own thrilling account of his first Antarctic
expedition and astonishing march to reach the South Pole.
With all the drama and adventure of Shackleton's later
memoir, South, this riveting volume recounts the
first polar expedition he led in his unremitting quest to
reach the South Pole. Frustrated by the failures and outcome
of Captain Robert Scott's Antarctic expedition, on which
he had served, Lieutenant Ernest Shackleton set out his
own crew for the ice-bound Antarctic coast in 1906. In his
trek across the frozen continent he met the challenges of
the land and the weather, like scaling of the 13,000-foot
volcanic Mount Erebus and enduring a merciless winter's
polar blizzards. Ultimately, he came within 97 miles of
his goal, but there the adventure did not end. In a breathtaking
race against time and nature, Shackleton and his exhausted
men then undertook a forced march to get back to camp before
their ship sailed - and eventuality that would left them
stranded on the edge of the earth's icy southernmost continent.
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