Bound Mensun
Bound Mensun - The Ship Beneath The Ice The Discovery Of Shackleton's Endurance - Hardcover
Bound Mensun - The Ship Beneath The Ice The Discovery Of Shackleton's Endurance - Hardcover
Books
Regular price
$29.71 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$29.71 USD
Unit price
per
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Binding: Hardcover
Description: By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance streaming soon on Disney+" As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration Bounds account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano - wire taut the writing saturated with polar moodiness." Sunday Times The inside story of how the Endurance Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship was found in the most hostile sea on Earth told by the expedition's Director of Exploration. On November 21, 1914, the Endurancesuccumbed to the surrounding ice. Ernest Shackleton and his crew had navigated the three - masted wooden vessel ten thousand miles to Antarctica in hopes of becoming the first to cross the barren continent but early season pack ice trapped them in place offshore. Marooned on the ice for six months Shackletons expedition to push the limits of human strength took a new form: one of survival against the odds. A century after this legendary story entered the annals of polar exploration renowned marine archeologist Mensun Bound and an elite team of explorers joined a new global race to find the wrecked Endurance. Bound experienced failure and despair in his attempts to locate the wreck and very nearly found his own vessel frozen in ice. Finally a century to the day after Shackletons burial the discovery: nearly ten thousand feet below the ice lay a remarkably preserved Endurance its name still emblazoned on the ships stern. Told with passion and flair (Washington Post) The Ship Beneath the Iceis a modern - day adventure narrative of the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuriesboth of whom accomplished the impossible.
Title: The Ship Beneath The Ice The Discovery Of Shackleton's Endurance
Author(s): Bound Mensun
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063297401
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/28/2023
Description: By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance streaming soon on Disney+" As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration Bounds account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano - wire taut the writing saturated with polar moodiness." Sunday Times The inside story of how the Endurance Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship was found in the most hostile sea on Earth told by the expedition's Director of Exploration. On November 21, 1914, the Endurancesuccumbed to the surrounding ice. Ernest Shackleton and his crew had navigated the three - masted wooden vessel ten thousand miles to Antarctica in hopes of becoming the first to cross the barren continent but early season pack ice trapped them in place offshore. Marooned on the ice for six months Shackletons expedition to push the limits of human strength took a new form: one of survival against the odds. A century after this legendary story entered the annals of polar exploration renowned marine archeologist Mensun Bound and an elite team of explorers joined a new global race to find the wrecked Endurance. Bound experienced failure and despair in his attempts to locate the wreck and very nearly found his own vessel frozen in ice. Finally a century to the day after Shackletons burial the discovery: nearly ten thousand feet below the ice lay a remarkably preserved Endurance its name still emblazoned on the ships stern. Told with passion and flair (Washington Post) The Ship Beneath the Iceis a modern - day adventure narrative of the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuriesboth of whom accomplished the impossible.
Title: The Ship Beneath The Ice The Discovery Of Shackleton's Endurance
Author(s): Bound Mensun
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063297401
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/28/2023
