shackleton, ernest henry

Describes the 800-mile sea journey in a 20-foot boat made by Sir Ernest Shackleton and 5 other men in order to seek help for the stranded companions of their Antarctic expedition.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey to reach inhabited land.

The Endurance left England for Antarctica in August, 1914 with polar explorer Ernest Shackelton and twenty-seven men on board. By January 1915 the Endurance had become locked inside an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. Then the true test of survival began for Shackleton and his men and they struggled to survive for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas. Their ordeal ended only after a miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

Relates how twenty-seven men and sixty-nine sled dogs aboard the Endurance struggled to survive when the ship became stuck in the ice during an expedition to Antarctica in 1914.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabitable land.

Examines the life and work of British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, focusing on his repeated attempts to reach the South Pole in the early twentieth century.

A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.

Presents an historical narrative on the British Antarctic expedition in 1908 of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the "Nimrod," who became the first to reach the South Pole and chronicles their achievements as they traveled across hundreds of miles of frozen wilderness.

Provides an account of the Shackleton expedition of 1914, during which explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven set out to cross the Antarctic continent on foot, only to have their ship, Endurance, break up eighty-five miles short of their destination, leaving them stranded for close to two years. Includes a photographic record of the adventure.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.