Shackleton's Epic. Recreating The World's Greatest Journey Of Survival

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: Reprint

Description: 288 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A new edition to mark the centenary Ernest Shackletons epic 1916 journey across 1300 kms of hostile ocean in a tiny, leaking boat and unmapped ice and snow to reach a rescue station by British-Australian explorer Tim Jarvis, who recreated Shackletons Epic in 2012Sir Edmund Hilary called it the greatest survival story of all time. In 1916, just months into Ernest Shackletons third expedition to the South Pole, his ship, the Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and sank. With winter setting in and supplies running out, Shackleton faced a terrible should he and his crew stay on a tiny inhospitable stretch of Antarctic island and die waiting Or should they make an almost certainly doomed journey, and sail in a lifeboat across 900 miles of the worlds wildest ocean then trek over unmapped glaciers to reach help. Showing astonishing courage, Shackleton and a small band of men set off in an open boat. Even more astonishingly, they survived.Almost a century later, explorer and environmental scientist Tim Jarvis set out with a crew of five to replicate Shackletons journey, using the same equipment, eating the same unpalatable food and facing the same hostile ocean conditions. Shackletons Epic is the story of that trip - the wretched lows and the occasional highs and the mental and physical toughness required to survive in one of the last wildernesses on earth. Moving between the past and the present, this is a must-read book for all Shackleton fans and lovers of epic adventure.Jarviss tribute to Ernest Shackletons Antarctic expedition had had a danger and heroism ... worthy of the original. - GUARDIAN (UK)... bone-chilling and breathtakingly frightening ... a well-written, compelling read. - KIRKUS REVIEWSa ripping yarn - BRISBANE NEWSserves to show just how brave, skilled, resourceful and optimistic the original [explorers] had been ... victory over adversity - HERALD SUN

ISBN: 9780733333613