Shackleton's Boat Journey

by Worsley, Frank Arthur
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Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted on an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage. All hands survived this ill-fated expedition; as Worsley writes, "By self-sacrifice and throwing his own life into the balance, Shackleton

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
  • ISBN: 9780393318647
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.28 x 0.56
  • Number Of Pages: 224
  • Publication Year: 1998

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