The Shackleton Boat Journey

Frank Arthur Worsley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2000 | 3rd Revised edition
Birlinn Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84158-063-0 (ISBN)

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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. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS "Endurance" from London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories of all time. Even as they coasted down the channel, Shackleton wired back to London to offer his ship to the war effort. The reply came from the First Lord of the Admiralty, one Winston Churchill: "Proceed." And proceed they did. When the "Endurance" was trapped and finally crushed to splinters by pack ice in late 1915, they drifted on an ice floe for five months, before getting to open sea and launching three tiny boats as far as the inhospitable, storm-lashed Elephant Island. They drank seal oil and ate baby albatross (delicious, apparently). From there Shackelton himself and seven others the author among them went on, in a 22-foot open boat, for an unbelievable 800 miles, through the Antarctic seas in winter, to South Georgia and rescue. It is an extraordinary story of courage and even good-humor among men who must have felt certain, secretly, that they were going to die. Worsley's account, first published in 1940, captures that bulldog spirit exactly: uncomplaining, tough, competent, modest and deeply loyal. It's gripping, and strangely moving."

Frank A. Worsley, anative New Zealander, served as a reserve officer in the Royal Navy before becoming captain of the "Endurance." He commanded two ships in World War I, for which he was decorated, sailed with Shackleton again in 1921, and in 1925 was the joint leader of the British Arctic Exploration. Worsley died in 1943."

Zusatzinfo	32pp b&w plate section
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	275 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-84158-063-5 / 1841580635
ISBN-13	978-1-84158-063-0 / 9781841580630
Zustand	Neuware