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Zusatztext Attractive presentation with coloured backgrounds and well laid out pages makes this book engaging and a good read Informationen zum Autor Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. She specialises in the natural world, religion and mythology but is always looking for new challenges. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat. She enjoys reading, walking the Moors, playing tennis and dreaming of winning Wimbledon. Klappentext In October 1914, the explorer, Ernest Shakleton and a team of men, set out on the ship, Endurance, to cross Antarctica via the South Pole. A few months into their voyage, the ship became trapped in ice, eventually sinking. With little hope of rescue, Shakleton's crew lived on the ice, enduring freezing temperatures and with only the food they could catch from the sea. When the ice floes began to crack beneath them, the men undertook a treacherous journey in three small lifeboats across the icy, stormy sea, eventually landing on Elephant Island - a place where no-one lived or was ever likely to visit... Retold in vivid detail and illustrated with contemporary photographs and artefacts, this story recounts one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human endeavor ever recorded.The awe-inspiring story of Ernest Shackleton and his epic expedition to cross Antarctica, one of the planet's most hostile environments. Zusammenfassung The awe-inspiring story of Ernest Shackleton and his epic expedition to cross Antarctica, one of the planet's most hostile environments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Antarctic dreams 2: Heading south 3: South again 4: Crossing a continent 5: Choosing a crew 6: Setting sail 7: Into the Weddell Sea 8: Stuck fast 9: Abandon ship 10: Patience camp 11: Escape from the ice 12: Land at last 13: Elephant island 14: Left behind 15: A desperate journey 16: Crossing the island 17: 'My name is Shackleton' 18: Rescue missions 19: Later life 20: In Shackleton's footsteps 21: Map of the journey ...
