Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic

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So Blackboro, who by now wasseverely cramped, was transferred to the locker assigned to Ernest Holness, afireman who was due to come off watch shortly. Few men could be more forbidding than Ernest Shackleton in a rage, andnow, squarely facing Blackboro, his huge shoulders hunched, Shackletonberated the young Welsh stowaway mercilessly.

At more or less the same time, a second ship would putinto McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea, almost directly across the continentfrom the Weddell Sea base. After a half-dozen leaps, the sea leopard had almost caught up with Orde-Lees when it unaccountably wheeled and plunged again into the water. On these occasions her three masts whipped violently back and forth as the rigging tightened like harpstrings. Every effort has been made to portray the events exactly as they occurred, and to record as accurately as possible the reactions of the men who lived them.M., all essential gear had been transferred to the ice, and a camp ofsorts had been established on a solid floe a short distance to starboard. As he told it, he was ashore in London, staying at a hotel, when onenight he had a dream in which he pictured Burlington Street, in thefashionable West End section, as being filled with blocks of ice throughwhich he was navigating a ship. At the same time a huge ship’s whistle blew, mingling with the crowing of roosters, the roar of a distant surf, the soft throb of an engine far away, and the moaning cries of an old woman.

His debut, which is an account of the Antarctic explorations of Ernest Shackleton, was first published in 1959. Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—hehad one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful. During his time working as a journalist, the author wrote for several papers including the likes of “Colliers” among many other magazines in the United States. Her frames were not only double-thick, rangingfrom 9¾ to 11 inches, but they were double in number, compared with aconventional vessel. On November 4, Macklin wrote in his diary: "It has been a lovely day, and it is hard to think we are in a frightfully precarious situation.His ship is battered by enormous ice floes on a consistent basis and ultimately sinks in November 1915. The toppost as second-in-command went to Frank Wild, a very small but powerfullybuilt man whose thin, mousy hair was rapidly disappearing altogether. He turned and fled, pushing as hard as he could with his ski poles and shouting for Wild to bring his rifle. The Endurance twisted and squirmed her way through the pack for nearlytwo weeks, but it was progress of a stop-and-go sort. Frequently she wasbarely able to push her way through, and sometimes she was stoppedaltogether, and had to heave to until the ice loosened.

With three companions, Shackleton struggled to within 97miles of their destination and then had to turn back because of a shortage offood. Most of the forecastle beams had already gone earlier in the day, and thedeck was heaved upward and working slowly up and down as the pressurecame and went. Two or three times early in February they tried to free the ship when cracksdeveloped reasonably close to her, but these attempts failed completely. There was, infact, a notable lack of interest in the radio, primarily because it wasconsidered not only a novelty but an unserviceable one.Basic Books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases in the United States by corporations, institutions, and other organizations. Más de un año después, y todavía a medio continente de distancia de la base deseada el Endurance estuvo amarrado al hielo flotando hacia al noroeste, antes de que fuera finalmente aplastado por la fuerza del hielo.