Taylor Mali
3) Shipwreck at the bottom of the world: the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic...