Antarctica
Books
- Endurance: Shackleton's Impossible Voyage Home Leadership at the Edge of the World · 李思特Think
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica. By 1915, his ship was crushed in the ice, and his twenty-eight-man crew was stranded on the most inhospitable continent on Earth.
- The Last Leave-Taking…ntists, seamen, a carpenter, a cook, a photographer, a surgeon—assembled through the previous spring and summer in the belief that crossing Antarctica remained a worthwhile national objective. Now the nation had other objectives entirely. What had seemed ambitious in July looked, by August…
- The Slow Death of Endurance…prepare hoosh—a stew of pemmican, biscuit, and whatever fresh meat the hunting parties had cached. The ship’s routine had been designed for Antarctica; now Antarctica had become the ship’s only horizon, and Shackleton adapted rather than abandoned the pattern. Men were assigned to meteorol…
- Elephant Island and the Ultimate Gamble…e, the South Shetland Islands offered only a stark geography of glaciers and cliffs exposed to the full violence of the westerlies circling Antarctica, and on one strip of beach at 2: 15 in the afternoon, the first foot touched stone. The man who placed it there had not stood on anything t…