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 in 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) saved every one of his men...although at times it looked unlikely that one could be saved.''
| Format |
Häftad |
| Omfång |
224 sidor |
| Språk |
Engelska |
| Förlag |
Vintage |
| Utgivningsdatum |
1999-05-06 |
| ISBN |
9780712665742 |
