Next Section Character List Previous Section About Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage How To Cite in MLA Format Anonymous 'Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage Summary'. PDF / EPUB File Name: Endurance-AlfredLansing.pdf, Endurance-AlfredLansing.epub PDF File Size: 1.5 MB EPUB File Size: 672 KB PDF EPUB Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage Download. Will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback. You can help us out by revising, improving and updatingĪfter you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. After another three months he manages to return to Elephant Island to rescue the rest of his crew. Shackleton, along with two of the remaining five, crosses the island to reach help. They sail 650 miles until they reach South Georgia Island only to face the dangers of the vast untouched arctic wilderness. At this point Shackleton takes five other crew members with him aboard the much smaller boat, the James Caird, and travels through the Drake Passage. Those who make it into the boats drift among the ice floes for over a year, gradually trying to make their way to land.Įventually they arrive at Elephant Island. Somehow most of the crew manages to launch escape boats before the ship sinks, but some men are forced to leap overboard and are lost to the ice. This occurs somewhere in the Weddell Sea. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir. Tragically, the Endurance crashes into some ice and takes on water. A voyage of this magnitude and consequence has never been attempted before. The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackletons survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, 'defined heroism. After lengthy preparation, everyone is excited for the adventure. They're manifested to cross the continent of Antarctica. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarks with his crew aboard the Endurance. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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