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Title: Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong, Taylor Mali ISBN: 1-883332-39-7 Publisher: Audio Bookshelf Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book tells of the hardships shackleton's crew endured.
Comment: The book Shipwreck at the bottom of the world is a very good book because it tells about the hardships Ernest Shackleton and his crew had to go through. This book tells their story in vivid detail and is very well written. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventure and travel.
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing story! I couldn't stop reading it!
Comment: I began reading this book while quite tired one evening, but found I couldn't put it down! Shackleton and his crew find themselves in one horrible predicament after another, yet all 28 men manage to miraculously survive! The photographs from the original voyage are incredible! A definite must read!
Rating: 5
Summary: An incredible, horrifying, and amazing trip
Comment: This 1999 winner of the Orbis Pictus Award (given for outstanding nonfiction for children) is a detailed and well-researched account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's incredible 1914-1916 voyage to Antarctica. Jennifer Armstrong does an excellent job of creating interest all through the book, sharing interesting details about what the men ate, and the games and activities they use to passed the time. The book includes many photographs taken by the photographer on the expedition, giving a sense of realism and immediacy.
The author follows Shackleton's trip from England to South Georgia Island, then the failed attempt to get to the Antarctic continent. The ship becomes stuck in ice, but the ice migrates, moving the Endurance further north, toward the open ocean. Before they reach the sea the ice crushes the ship, forcing the men to abandon it. It is after the sinking of the Endurance that the narrative gets so exciting that the book is impossible to put down. The reader reads with growing horror of the crew's travail across the ice and out to tiny, barren Elephant Island.
When it seems that the men can't possibly have anything worse ahead of them, Shackleton and five men sail a small lifeboat eight hundred miles back to South Georgia Island. Armstrong's description of the harrowing fifteen days spent in the lifeboat holds the reader in a vise-like grip. She winds down the tension with a very satisfying epilogue relating what the crewmembers did with the rest of their lives. The captioned photograph at the end of the book showing the entire crew shortly after their return to civilization is a perfect touch.
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Title: Spirit of Endurance : The True Story of the Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic by Jennifer Armstrong, William Maughan ISBN: 0517800918 Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel ISBN: 0395915244 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 16 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman, Amos Bad Heart Bull, Amos Bad Heart Bull ISBN: 0823412199 Publisher: Holiday House Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ISBN: 0618002715 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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