Spirit of Endurance

Spirit of Endurance
ISBN-10
0517800918
ISBN-13
9780517800911
Category
Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Exploration & Discovery
Pages
32
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Author
Jennifer Armstrong

Description

In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out from England in an attempt to lead the first expedition across the Antarctic continent. What followed was one of the most extraordinary survival stories in history: a ship trapped and then wrecked by ice; an expedition marooned, first on the constantly shifting Antarctic pack, then on a remote, uninhabited island; a daring open boat journey across the world's most violent ocean; a trek over unmapped mountains; and finally an amazing rescue.
Jennifer Armstrong's Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World received widespread praise and won the Orbis Pictus Award. Now she tells the Endurance story for a younger audience, in an oversize format with color paintings re-creating the detail and drama of the expedition's ordeal.

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