- British, Discovery and exploration, Endurance (Navire), Endurance (Ship)
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed. This tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctice seas defined heroism.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Alfred Lansing, Elena Grau
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Caroll & Graf, Blackstone Audio Inc., Tyndale House Publishers
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780465062881
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