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Shackleton's Dream

Stephen Haddelsey

  • Bindwijze: E-book
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Biografieën & Waargebeurd
  • ISBN: 9780752477725
Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:E-book
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:30 november 2011
Aantal pagina's:224
Ebook Formaat:Adobe ePub
Illustraties:Nee
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Hoofdauteur:Stephen Haddelsey
Hoofdauteur:Stephen Haddelsey
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Editie:1
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:165 mm
Verpakking hoogte:10 mm
Verpakking lengte:235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:320 g
Overige kenmerken
Editie:1
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Studieboek:Nee
Verpakking breedte:165 mm
Verpakking hoogte:10 mm
Verpakking lengte:235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:320 g

Samenvatting

In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called 'The last great polar journey' - the crossing of Antarctica. His expedition ended in disaster, with the Endurance crushed and the frozen corpses of three explorers left on the Antarctic plateau. Forty years later Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary, the hero of Everest, set out to succeed where Shackleton had failed. Despite the passage of four decades, the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955-58 encountered many of the obstacles that had so hindered Shackleton - a chronic shortage of funds, inadequate equipment and an early onset of pack-ice. Even more disastrously, it also suffered from a clash of personalities so sever that it came close to destroying the expedition from within. Based upon interviews with the survivors and upon contemporary diaries and letters, Shackleton's Dream tells for the first time the epic story of this last great expedition of the 'Heroic Age' of Antarctic exploration.