The Ship Beneath the IceAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 28 February 2023
Description
"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bounds account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." Sunday Times
The inside story of how theEndurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.
On November 21, 1914, after sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Antarctic Ocean, theEndurancefinally succumbed to the surrounding ice. Ernest Shackleton and his crew had navigated the 144-foot, three-masted wooden vessel to Antarctica to become the first to cross the barren continent, but early season pack ice trapped them in place offshore. They watched in silence as the ships stern rose twenty feet in the air and disappeared into the frigid sea, then spent six harrowing months marooned on the ice in its wake. Seal meat was their only sustenance as Shackletons expedition to push the limits of human strength took a new form: one of survival against the odds.
As this legendary story entered the annals of polar exploration, it inspired a new global race to find the wreckedEndurance, by all accounts the worlds most unreachable shipwreck. Several missions failed, thwarted, as Shackleton was, by the unpredictable Weddell Sea. Finally, a century to the day after Shackletons death, renowned marine archeologist Mensun Bound and an elite team of explorers discovered the lost shipwreck. Nearly ten thousand feet below the ice lay a remarkably preservedEndurance, its name still emblazoned on the ships stern.
The Ship Beneath the Icechronicles two dramatic expeditions to what Shackleton called the most hostile sea on Earth. Bound experienced failure and despair in his attempts to locate the wreck, and, like Shackleton before him, very nearly found his vessel frozen in ice.
Complete with captivating photos from the 1914 expedition and of the wreck as Bound and his team found it, this inspiring modern-day adventure narrative captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuriesboth of whom accomplished the impossible.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
28 Sep 2023
HISTORY
€13.30
by
Hardback
26 Sep 2024
General and world history
€29.25
by
Paperback
26 Sep 2024
General and world history
€17.54
Reviews