Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the endurance / Jennifer Armstrong.

By: Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-Material type: TextTextEdition: First paperback editionDescription: 134 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0375810498 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922. -- Juvenile literature | Endurance (Ship) -- Juvenile literature | Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) -- Juvenile literature | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British -- Juvenile literature
Contents:
Just imagine -- Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition -- Growlers -- Fist of the Antarctic -- Winter on the pack -- Pressure -- Face of the deep is frozen -- Ocean camp -- Mutiny -- Patience, patience, patience -- Into the boats -- Escape from the ice -- Passage to Elephant Island -- Dry land -- Open boat journey: First ten days -- End of the open boat journey -- Cave -- Alps of the southern ocean -- Camp Wild -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
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Reprint. First published: Crown, c1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index.

Just imagine -- Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition -- Growlers -- Fist of the Antarctic -- Winter on the pack -- Pressure -- Face of the deep is frozen -- Ocean camp -- Mutiny -- Patience, patience, patience -- Into the boats -- Escape from the ice -- Passage to Elephant Island -- Dry land -- Open boat journey: First ten days -- End of the open boat journey -- Cave -- Alps of the southern ocean -- Camp Wild -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

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