The Lost Men
The Harrowing Story of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party
(Sprache: Englisch)
The tragic and unforgettable story of the Aurora and its twenty-eight-man support crew to Shackleton's dramatic 1914 Antartic expedition.
The tragic and unforgettable story of the Aurora and its twenty-eight-man support crew to Shackleton's dramatic 1914 Antartic expedition.
The tragic and unforgettable story of the Aurora and its twenty-eight-man support crew to Shackleton's dramatic 1914 Antartic expedition.
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The tragic and unforgettable story of the Aurora and its twenty-eight-man support crew to Shackleton's dramatic 1914 Antartic expedition.
The tragic and unforgettable story of the Aurora and its twenty-eight-man support crew to Shackleton's dramatic 1914 Antartic expedition.
The tragic and unforgettable story of the Aurora and its twenty-eight-man support crew to Shackleton's dramatic 1914 Antartic expedition.
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In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set forth to make history with the first-ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. On the eve of the First World War, Shackleton disappeared into the Weddell Sea aboard the Endurance, while a ship called the Aurora sailed into the Ross Sea on the opposite side of the continent under the command of Æneas Mackintosh. The Ross Sea party, twenty-eight strong, was there to create a lifeline of vital food and fuel depots to supply the epic crossing. 'This programme would involve some heavy sledging, but the ground to be covered was familiar and I had not anticipated that the work would present any great difficulties,' Shackleton wrote.Yet all went tragically wrong when the Aurora broke free of its moorings in an Antarctic gale and stranded ten men ashore, woefully ill-equipped to perform their task. Left with little more than the clothing on their backs and scavenged equipment, the men vowed to carry on in the face of impossible odds. Meanwhile, the rest of the Aurora crew, cast adrift at the mercy of the elements, battled for survival. With little hope of rescue, the lost men struggled to save themselves and carry out their mission.
Kelly Tyler-Lewis brings Antarctic exploration alive in this richly researched chronicle of a previously overshadowed expedition marked by extraordinary bravery and fortitude.
Autoren-Porträt von Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Tyler-Lewis, KellyKelly Tyler-Lewis is an historian and filmmaker. A Senior Member of Wolfson College and a Visiting Scholar of the Scott Polar Research Institute, both of the University of Cambridge,Tyler-Lewis is also a consulting historian for the BFI. As a film producer and writer, she received an Emmy Award for Best Historical Documentary for Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance, a film for the PBS series NOVA also nominated for Best Documentary of 2002.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kelly Tyler-Lewis
- 2006, 384 Seiten, Maße: 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747584141
- ISBN-13: 9780747584148
Sprache:
Englisch
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