And narrator Taylor Mali's dynamic performance transports the listener into the heart of this riveting saga. The story is enhanced with diary excerpts, explanations of the terrain, wildlife, and navigation techniques, and the Antarctic weather that so affected the outcome of the fateful voyage.
Whether it was a treacherous journey over ice, a storm-racked eight-hundred-mile open-boat journey, or a death-defying trek across a mountain range, Shackleton's mission never wavered: "But if you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going." Over the next nineteen months, Shackleton led his men through brutal perils of every kind on ice, land, and sea with one goal-that they all survive.
What follows is one of the most amazing stories of survival ever recorded. Their ship, Endurance, became icebound and sank, still one hundred miles from land. As this Shipwreck At The Bottom Of World Extraordinary True Story Shackleton And Endurance Jennifer Armstrong, it ends in the works subconscious one of the.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men sailed from England in an attempt to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Categories Children and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, History
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