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Shackleton's Boat Journey: The Narrative of the Captain of the Endurance (Historical Adventure and ...

1 review
Frank Arthur Worsley

Narrative Press, 2004

Shackleton's boat journey
This book is an interesting first hand account of the Shackleton expedition and their journey by small boat to South Georgia Island. As a narrative by the captain of the Endurance, it can make for laborious reading, as it is not written as a spell-binding novel. As well, it requires some basic foreknowledge of the Shackleton expedition; their mission and the result. The Endurance sinks on the ...

Under Sail in the Frozen North
Frank Arthur Worsley

The Narrative Press, 2003

Frank Arthur Worsley was a naval officer and polar explorer, best known as the captain of Shackleton's "Endurance." In this book, Worsley tells of his trip as co-leader of the 1926 British Artic Expedition.

Under Sail in the Frozen North **ISBN: 9781589762329**
Frank Arthur Worsley

Lightning Source Inc, 2003

Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure

18 reviews
Frank Arthur Worsley

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

An excellent account
I took a copy of this during an overseas military deployment, and in being reminded of the incredible conditions of the Endurance expedition, I found it hard to complain about some of the comparatively minor discomforts of being in the Army. This account by Worsley, the skipper of the Endurance and a lifelong friend of Shackleton, is a useful complement to other writings on the subject. The ...

Shackleton's Boat Journey

14 reviews
Frank Arthur Worsley

Birlinn Publishers, 2002

Incredible Survival Tale, Beautifully and Humbly Told
In the summer of 1914 Ernest Schackleton's ship Endurance became trapped in Antarctic ice in 53 degree below zero weather. The following winter, the ship was crushed and sank, leaving the crew to camp on the ice while eking out subsistence under unimaginable conditions. In April of 1916, the ice broke apart beneath their feet, and twenty eight men piled into the lifeboats they had rescued from ...