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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 on 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
Author: Frank Arthur Worsley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/1998
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.58w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780393318647
ISBN10: 0393318648
BISAC Categories:
- History | Polar Regions
- Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
- Sports & Recreation | Water Sports | Sailing