ebooks New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield by Richard I. Melvoin in History

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The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition; recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley; commander of the Endurance; stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets;" replied Sir Ernest Shackleton; the expedition's unflappable leader; "the ice keeps." It did not; however; get the ship's twenty-five crew members; all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea; land; and ice to South Georgia; the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931; Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue; as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War; sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic; and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration. 20 illustrations