Erebus

the story of a ship

Erebus

the story of a ship
Michael Palin
Book - 2019

Michael Palin -- Monty Python star and television globetrotter -- brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the Great Southern Barrier; the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus's final, disastrous expedition; and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist -- when he wasn't shooting the local wildlife dead. Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarcticas Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is a wonderfully evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller.

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37413320685706 متاح Non-fiction 910.9163 PALIN
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المؤلف الرئيسي: Palin, Michael (مؤلف)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: London : Arrow Books, 2019.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : Hooker's stockings -- Prologue : the survivor -- Made in Wales -- Magnetic north -- Magnetic south -- Far-off shores -- "Our southern home" -- "Farther south than any (known) human being has been" -- Dancing with the captains -- "Pilgrims of the ocean" -- "Such a wretched place as this you never saw" -- "Three years from Gillingham" -- Homeward bound -- "So little now remains to be done" -- North by north-west -- No signal -- The truth -- Life and death -- The Inuit story -- Resurrection. 
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