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Priestley’s sketch of it in his wonderful account of the expedition, Antarctic Adventure, is inexpressibly stark and horrid: two rows of sleeping bags laid three abreast, with penguin and seal carcasses stacked to one side and bones to the other, and a filthy sack strung up for privacy in the commode. There was barely enough room to stand.
Sep 11, 2023 · The only thing better than one reliable narrator is a chorus of them. Up until then I hadn’t been conscious that this multiplicity of voices was missing—in Antarctic adventure stories or in any story, really. It’s easy to idealize care and community, especially when they’re presented as alternatives to conquest and competition.
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4,900+ Quick-Read Plot Summaries. Downloadable PDFs. Subscribe for $3 a Month. The early chapters of Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World describe explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton’s preparations for his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, which aims to be the first to cross the continent of Antarctica, as well as the early stages of the journey.
- Endurance Is Locked in by Ice
- Survival on An Ice Floe
- Marooned on Elephant Island
- 'My Name Is Shackleton'
- Rescue Mission to Elephant Island
- Shackleton's Early Death
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Endurance had left South Georgia for Antarctica on December 5, 1914, carrying 27 men (plus one stowaway, who became the ship’s steward), 69 dogs, and a tomcat erroneously dubbed Mrs. Chippy. The goal of expedition leader Shackleton, who had twice fallen short—once agonizingly so—of reaching the South Pole, was to establish a base on Antarctica’s We...
In the time that passed between abandoning Enduranceand watching the ice swallow it up completely, the crew salvaged as many provisions as they could, while sacrificing anything and everything that added weight or would consume valuable resources— including bibles, books, clothing, tools and keepsakes. Some of the younger dogs, too small to pull th...
It was the first time they had been on dry land since leaving South Georgia 497 days previously. But their ordeal was far from over. The likelihood of anybody coming across them was vanishingly small, and so after nine days of recuperation and preparation, Shackleton, Worsley and four others set out in one of the lifeboats, the James Caird,to seek ...
There was no conceivable circumstance under which three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station, and certainly not from the direction of the mountains. And yet here they were: their hair and beards stringy and matted, their faces blackened with soot from blubber stoves and creased from nearly two years of stress and priv...
Once the other three members of the James Caird had been retrieved, attention turned to rescuing the 22 men remaining on Elephant Island. Yet, after all that had gone before, this final task in many ways proved to be the most trying and time-consuming of all. The first ship on which Shackleton set out ran dangerously low on fuel while trying to nav...
Ernest Shackleton never did reach the South Pole or crossed Antarctica. He launched one more expedition to the Antarctic, but the Endurance veterans who rejoined him noticed he appeared weaker, more diffident, drained of the spirit that had kept them alive. On January 5, 1922, with the ship at South Georgia, he had a heart attack in his bunk and di...
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.
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Oct 6, 2023 · Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas – Matt Lewis. For a thrilling first-person account, Matt Lewis invites you into his experience of a storm that brought the small ship, Sudur Harvid, to the bottom of the ocean. With a missing captain and only three liferafts, Lewis recounts the dramatic fight to survive ...
Oct 1, 2021 · Ernest Shackleton's remarkable story is a terrifying adventure with the happiest of endings - another brilliant narrative non-fiction Antarctic adventure featuring an explorer who was a true polar hero Adrift on the Antarctic pack ice with no means of escape and no hope of rescue, Ernest Shackleton and his men are surely doomed.
