Alfred Lansing

Discover one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Endurance

No verão de 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton parte a bordo do Endurance em direção ao Atlântico Sul. O objetivo de sua expedição era cruzar o continente Antártico, passando pelo Pólo Sul, mas pouco antes de alcançar sua base original, o Endurance fica preso no gelo e acaba sendo destruído. Por quase seis meses, Shackleton e sua tripulação sobrevivem nas placas de gelo em uma das mais inóspitas regiões do mundo, até que conseguem iniciar sua tentativa de salvação nos botes salva-vidas. Através dos diários e entrevistas com alguns membros da expedição, o autor reconstrói os meses de ansiedade e trabalho duro que a tripulação do Endurance enfrentou.

A incrível viagem de Shackleton

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Wrzesień, 1914. Ernest Shackleton i 22 śmiałków rusza na podbój Antarktydy z zamiarem połączenia mórz Rossa i Wedella śladem ludzkich stóp. Po 6 tygodniach zmagań z oceanem trójmasztowiec Endurance zostaje uwięziony w paku lodowym na kolejnych 10 miesięcy. Dryfująca, niezdolna do samodzielnej żeglugi brygantyna zostaje zmiażdżona przez krę zostawiając rozbitków na pastwę antarktycznej zimy. Shackleton podejmuje szaleńczą próbę przebicia się do Południowej Georgii wpierw pieszo, następnie w szalupie ratunkowej. Alfred Lansing na podstawie dokumentów, dzienników i rozmów z uczestnikami odtwarza przebieg wyprawy dzień po dniu dając świadectwo ludzkiej determinacji i bohaterstwa, które i wówczas i dzisiaj jest prawie niemożliwe do powtórzenia.

Alfred Lansing

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