Shackleton's Boat Journey

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/1998
ISBN: 9780393318647
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.58w x 0.56d

Review Citations: New York Times 12/27/1998 pg. 12