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Chargement... Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (original 1959; édition 1999)par Alfred Lansing
Information sur l'oeuvreEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage par Alfred Lansing (1959)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Everything about this story is bananas. They had so many firsts, purely in an effort to survive. I couldn't stop reading when I got to the final section of the book. ( ) I was a little apprehensive to read a book written 60 years ago about events that happened 100 ago (would the language be boring?) but it was incredible. I heard about it from my husband so even knowing much of what happens and how it ends, it was still amazingly captivating. I remarked to him that if someone had tried writing these events as a fiction book the editor and/or the public would have trashed the book because of how unbelievable it was - but this really happened. Any of this would have been my own personal hell and if I had been a member of this crew I would have moved to the desert and become a vegetarian I think! I don't read a lot of non-fiction but I really highly recommend this! Highly recommended by my EWS FACAD. Read this book via audiobook while training for a marathon in Quantico while at EWS. Made training much easier when in comparison with the trials and tribulations of Shackleton and his crew. Incredible read that I highly recommend anyone with any reading interests to enjoy. I probably would have paid attention in my high school history class if they taught us about Sir Ernest Shackleton and his impressive voyage on the Endurance. This is an unbelievable story, and one that Alfred Lansing tells superbly in his book, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. My interest in Shackleton and the Endurance began with an episode on the television show, Histories Greatest Mysteries. A crew was searching for the lost Endurance and the episode told the harrowing tale of Shackleton and his crew. I was intrigued by the story and wanted to know more details so I purchased the book, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, through my Audible subscription. I certainly learned a lot from this book. Shackleton, an expedition leader, was determined to reach the South Pole and establish a base on Antarctica’s Weddell Sea Coast. He and his crew of 27 men and 69 dogs set sail on December 5, 1914. They were to be the first to cross the continent. Their adventure was troublesome with constantly being trapped in pack ice that made their progress extremely slow. On January 18, 1915, the Endurance became permanently stuck in the pack ice. Initially, they waited out the winter weather on the ship. Once the pack ice began damaging the ship, Shackleton and his crew had no choice but to abandon the Endurance. They established a camp on the ice floe, always intending to get to land. Navigating the ever changing ice floes and sailing in their smaller boats, Shackleton and his crew eventually reached Elephant Island, 497 days into their journey. From there, Shackleton and five other men, set sail again for a whaling station 800 miles away. It took them 16 days. When they finally reached land, the weather had gotten them so far off course, they were on the opposite side of the island from where they intended. Shackleton and two men hiked, sometimes making progress... I have photos, videos, and additional information that I'm unable to include here. It can all be found on my blog, in the link below. A Book And A Dog aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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L'Odyssee de Shackleton et de ses compagnons est l'une des plus sensationnelles de l'histoire de la mer. La volonte et l'energie deployees par cette poignee d'hommes dans leur lutte titanesque contre les forces dechainees de la Nature ont fait reculer les limites connues de la resistance humaine. Le 18 janvier 1915, l'Endurance ayant a son bord une expedition se proposant de traverser a pied le continent antarctique est prise par la banquise sans avoir pu toucher terre. Le 27 octobre suivant, le trois-mats, peu a peu ecrase par la pression des glaces, est evacue ; les 28 hommes de l'expedition se retrouvent sur un floe, a 2 000 km du plus proche avant-poste. Ils derivent jusqu'en avril 1916 et peuvent alors mettre a l'eau les trois embarcations de l'Endurance et gagner l'Ile de l'Elephant. Shackleton et cinq de ses compagnons en repartent pour aller, a travers l'ocean le plus tempetueux du globe, chercher du secours en Georgie du Sud, a 800 milles de la. Cet incroyable exploit, dans une embarcation non pontee, est l'un des plus remarquables de l'histoire de la navigation. Parvenus sur la cote sud, Shackleton et deux de ses compagnons ont encore la force d'entreprendre la traversee a pied de la Georgie du Sud, un effroyable chaos de montagnes et de glaciers, munis d'une simple corde et d'une herminette de charpentier, performance qui ne sera renouvelee que 40 ans plus tard par une expedition dotee de grands moyens. Les trois hommes atteignent le 20 mai 1916 le petit port baleinier de Stromness. Deux jours apres les trois compagnons restes sur la cote sud sont sauves, le 30 aout ceux de l'Ile de l'Elephant le sont egalement. Certes, le but de l'expedition n'a pas ete atteint. Mais ces 28 hommes ont fait infiniment plus. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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