Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Shackleton es uno de los exploradores más conocidos y reconocidos de la breve historia de la exploración polar. Y todo ello pese a no haber conseguido jamás ninguno de los objetivos de sus expediciones.En el caso de la Expedicion Imperial Transantartica (1914-1917), que pretendia realizar la primera travesia integra de la Antartica, ni siquiera se llego a pisar tierra firme en el continente.Su mayor merito, sin duda, esta en que siempre supo en que momento abandonar la mision y dedicar todos los recursos, por pocos que fueran, a sobrevivir.Habilidad, suerte, y buena compañia son los ingredientes que siempre hicieron posible la vuelta a casa.

Although Shackleton's (1874-1922) epic expedition to reach the South Pole was a complete disaster, it was rescued from absurdity by his heroic, terrifying crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat to a whaling station on South Georgia. Through one of the greatest recorded feats of navigation and of leadership, he overcame almost impossible odds and rescued every one of his men from otherwise certain death. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.

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In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent. He has a ship (the aptly named Endurance), a head brimming with optimism, and 28 men willing to follow him on an expedition across some of the most treacherous terrain on the planet. But Shackletons optimism doesnt last long. Despite his experience in the Antarctic, disaster strikes early on when the Endurance is trapped in packed ice and slowly crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men off the ship and stranding them in a sea of ice. South is the legendary story of Shackleton and his crews struggle to survive the elements and return home alive. Written by Shackleton, South is a truly astonishing story of human fortitude. It is the story of a voyage that lasts nearly three yearsa firsthand account of hurricane-force winds, subzero temperatures, glaciers, icebergs, freezing water, starvation, and lethal, terrifying storms. It is a tale unlike any to come before or since. Shackletons record of his journey made him famous around the world and transformed him into a symbol of achievement and hope in an age of darkness and war.

DEPOIS DA CONQUISTA DO POLO SUL PERMANECEU APENAS UM GRANDE OBJETIVO NAS EXPLORAÇÕES DA ANTÁRTIDA: A TRAVESSIA DO CONTINENTE ANTÁRTICO DE MAR A MAR.Ano de 1914. Enquanto a sombra da guerra cai sobre

As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the worlds most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.

Dopo aver letto i diari desplorazione di questo libro forse il lettore avra piu chiaro lobiettivo di quellandare apparentemente senza senso che conduce al punto estremo focalizzato al centro del continente antartico e che al contrario di ogni altra esplorazione non e rivolto a un luogo geografico significativo (una vetta una foce una sorgente unisola). Non e neppure una citta fantasma una mitica Eldorado un continente sommerso. Il punto inseguito dagli esploratori antartici e semplicemente un luogo geometrico un punto originato dalla forma sferica della Terra e dalla cartografia che ha cercato di misurare il pianeta: il punto dincontro tra la natura e la scienza geografica. Ma e anche uno dei dati di un problema di fisica. Laltro dato necessario per risolvere il problema e stabilito dalla resistenza degli uomini che cercano di raggiungere quel punto. Ovvero dato un punto geografico come si puo raggiungerlo conoscendo attrito e forza motrice del punto mobile.Il primo viaggio di Scott e aleatorio sembra piu il lancio di un sasso verso il cielo in quella direzione indeterminata che e soltanto lontananza dal punto di partenza e che termina la sua corsa troppo lontano dal bersaglio per fornire dati significativi.La spedizione di Shackleton ha spostato in avanti la tensione di quellelastico e se fermata a 97 miglia dallobiettivo. Le difficolta sopraggiunte durante il viaggio di ritorno hanno dato ragione allesploratore che effettivamente aveva misurato bene le capacita e la resistenza umane. Non sarebbe stato lui a trarre le conseguenze dalla sua esperienza ma sarebbe toccato a Scott valutare di persona quanto difficile era percorrere quelle ulteriori 97 miglia.Lultima spedizione di Scott qui documentata dal diario di Wilson racconta quel che Shackleton ha pensato non dovesse essere vissuto. Racconta quel che ce oltre il limite delle capacita umane.

Unimpresa epica raccontata in un libro che torna in una nuova traduzione completa di appendici corredata dalle foto mozzafiato di Frank Hurley membro della spedizione e con unintroduzione di Filippo Tuena.Sud e il resoconto di quegli anni tremendi sul ghiaccio ricostruiti dalla voce asciutta e lucida di Shackleton attraverso i diari di tutto lequipaggio. Gli accampamenti improvvisati per mesi sulla banchisa alla deriva la fuga per mare a bordo delle tre scialuppe di salvataggio lapprodo allisola Elephant e infine lincredibile traversata verso la Georgia del Sud. Shackleton con altri cinque uomini navighera per ottocento miglia sulla James Caird una scialuppa di appena sei metri. Una volta giunto alla meta con i soli Worsley e Crean attraversera a piedi le montagne della Georgia del Sud e ritornera infine sullisola Elephant nellagosto del 1916 a bordo di una nave cilena per trarre in salvo tutti i suoi uomini.

South is Ernest Shackletons account of the 191417 Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition: Endurance beset and crushed in the Weddell Sea, months on drifting floes, the openboat run to Elephant Island, and the James Caird voyage to South Georgia with the traverse to Stromness. Written in plainspoken yet exacting prose that fuses logbook precision with lyricism, the narrative threads meteorological notes, navigational reckonings, and Frank Hurleys images, and ends with the grim ordeal of the Ross Sea party. It stands in the Heroic Age alongside Scott and Amundsen. AngloIrish and formed in the mercantile marine, Shackleton had pushed within ninetyseven miles of the Pole on Nimrod and served under Scott on Discovery; these trials, with his belief that morale is the fulcrum of survival, shape every decision here. Writing after wars end, he sought to honor his men, meet debts, and preserve the scientific recordsoundings, ice reports, depotlayingwhile candidly weighing failure, risk, and responsibility in an enterprise conceived at the dusk of empire. Readers of exploration history, leadership studies, and narrative nonfiction will find South indispensable: a taut case study in crisis command, seamanship, and collective resilience, illuminated by documentation and an unsentimental clarity of purpose.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Now we clung to a battered little boat, alone, alone all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide sea. The ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 was to be the first land-crossing of Antarctica. When disaster strikes, Sir Ernest Shackletons party has no choice but make an impossible journey across an uncharted landscape of unstable ice floes, stormy seas and inhospitable glaciers. What follows is a desperate quest for survival, an epic true-story of derring-do from a true hero of the Golden age of Antarctic exploration. Against the poignant backdrop of World War I, Shackleton recounts the tale of his own battle, the White Warfare of the South, a desperate struggle of human resilience, determination and teamwork against nature itself.

In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe. In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive. What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance. This is their story, as told by the man who led them. Ernest Shackleton was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Kilkea, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland, Shackleton and his Anglo-Irish family moved to Sydenham in suburban south London when he was ten. His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scotts Discovery Expedition 19011904, from which he was sent home early on health grounds, after he and his companions Scott and Edward Adrian Wilson set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82S. During the second expedition 19071909 he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88S, only 97 geographical miles (112 statute miles, 180 km) from the South Pole, the largest advance to the pole in exploration history. Also, members of his team climbed Mount Erebus, the most active Antarctic volcano. For these achievements, Shackleton was knighted by King Edward VII on his return home.

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The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces in the ice and its crew trapped in the Antarctic, seemingly doomed to a slow and horrible death. In the face of extraordinary odds, Shackleton, the expeditions leader, decided on the only course that might just save them: a 700 nautical mile voyage in a small boat across the ferocious Southern Ocean in the forelorn hope of reaching the only human habitation within range: a small whaling station on the rugged, ice-sheeted island of South Georgia.South tells the story both of the whole astonishing expedition and of Shackletons journey to rescue his men - one of the greatest feats of navigation ever recorded.

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South is a book by Ernest Shackleton describing the second expedition to Antarctica led by him, which is the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917. The book describes the progress of the Endurance through pack ice in the Weddell Sea; the ship was eventually held in pack ice and drifted with it. The ship was crushed and sank. The party camped on the ice which drifted north; when the ice no longer supported them they took to the three boats from the ship and made for Elephant Island.

In "South," Ernest Shackleton recounts his legendary Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance, which became an emblem of human resilience amid natures harshest trials. Written in a gripping narrative style, the text merges adventure and descriptive prose, providing a vivid account of the crews harrowing journey following the ships demise in 1915. Shackletons literary context lies within the tradition of exploration narratives, combining detailed observations of the unyielding landscape with a profound psychological portrait of survival, camaraderie, and leadership as the crew battles both physical despair and the bitter cold of the polar environment. Ernest Shackleton, an Anglo-Irish explorer born in 1874, was driven by an insatiable quest for discovery and a longing to test the limits of both human endurance and geographical boundaries. His previous expeditions laid the groundwork for his ambitious idea to traverse Antarctica. Not only does his expertise as a navigator and leader shine through the text, but his personal ethoscentered around teamwork, courage, and tenacityemerges as a vital theme amid the perils faced by his crew. "South" stands as an essential reading for anyone fascinated by the spirit of exploration, captivatingly chronicling extraordinary resilience in the face of calamity. Shackletons masterful storytelling not only illuminates the grim realities of survival but also serves as an inspiring testament to the human spirit, making it a must-read for adventurers and scholars alike.In this enriched edition, we have carefully created added value for your reading experience:- A succinct Introduction situates the works timeless appeal and themes.- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the eras events and influences that shaped the writing.- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the authors life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the works messages, connecting them to modern life.- Handpicked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.