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"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. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But...
Author
Series
Lost volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
There wasn't a thing Ernest Shackleton could do. He stood on the ice-bound Weddell Sea, watching the giant blocks of frozen saltwater squeeze his ship to death. The ship's name seemed ironic now: the Endurance. But she had lasted nine months in this condition, stuck on the ice in the frigid Antarctic winter. So had Shackleton and his crew of 28 men, trying to become the first expedition ever to cross the entire continent.
Now, in October 1915, as...
4) Shipwreck at the bottom of the world: the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Exciting illustrations follow the story of Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance. The combination of brightly colored panels and leveled text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
7) Shackleton
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 774 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
8) South
Author
Publisher
North Books
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
411 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 expedition to cross Antarctica involved being shipwrecked and then crossing 600 miles of ice floes, 850 miles of the worst seas on earth and miles of mountainous terrain before reaching safety.
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