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The ship beneath the ice : the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance / Mensun Bound.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Mariner Books, 2023Copyright date: c2022Edition: First Mariner books hardcover editionDescription: 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of numbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063297401
  • 006329740X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 919.8904 23/eng/2023
LOC classification:
  • G530.E64 B68 2023
Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019. January 2019 ; February 2019 -- Part two: The Endurance22 Expedition 2022. January 2022 ; February 2022 ; March 2022 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17 -- Appendix 2: Members of the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 -- Appendix 3: Members of the Endurance 22 Expedition 2022.
Summary: A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.Summary: November 21, 1915: After sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Weddell Sea, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice. Shackleton and his crew watched in silence as the ships stern disappeared into the frigid sea, then spent five months marooned on the ice in its wake. Subsequent missions to find the Endurance failed over the next century. Bound, director of exploration on the 2019 and 2022 expeditions to locate the Endurance, chronicles the two expeditions into what Shackleton called "the worst portion of the worst sea on Earth." -- adapted from jacketOther editions: Reproduction of (manifestation):: Bound, Mensun. Ship beneath the ice.
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Book Iola Public Library New Iola Public Library Adult Books 919.8904 Bound, Mensun (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 04/08/2024 34311003024495

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"Originally published in the UK in 2022 by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-403).

Introduction -- Part one: The Weddell Sea Expedition 2019. January 2019 ; February 2019 -- Part two: The Endurance22 Expedition 2022. January 2022 ; February 2022 ; March 2022 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1914-17 -- Appendix 2: Members of the Weddell Sea Expedition 2019 -- Appendix 3: Members of the Endurance 22 Expedition 2022.

A renowned marine biologist presents this extraordinary firsthand account of the discovery of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance--a century to the day after Shackleton's death--that captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries, both of whom accomplished the impossible.

November 21, 1915: After sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Weddell Sea, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice. Shackleton and his crew watched in silence as the ships stern disappeared into the frigid sea, then spent five months marooned on the ice in its wake. Subsequent missions to find the Endurance failed over the next century. Bound, director of exploration on the 2019 and 2022 expeditions to locate the Endurance, chronicles the two expeditions into what Shackleton called "the worst portion of the worst sea on Earth." -- adapted from jacket

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