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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Item code: WH-52089
ISBN: 0881841781
Authors: Alfred Lansing.
Pages/Length: 282
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Publication Date: 1986
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: History
Date Added: 1/3/2007
Price: $11.95

Ernest Shackleton's third trip to Antarctica resulted in his ship Endurance being trapped in pack ice in January 1915 and eventually crushed. Shackleton and his men, drifting south on the ice, were castaways in one of the most savage climates on earth. His leadership is recounted here from diaries and interviews with his crew. Shackleton led them across hundreds of miles of ice, then to Elephant Island in open lifeboats. He then journeyed across 800 miles of stormy ocean with a few of his men in the lifeboat James Caird to South Georgia Island and climbed across its jagged interior—a journey few have dared make to this day—to the outpost of Stromness on the far coast, where he organized a rescue for his remaining men. They were finally retrieved from Elephant Island in August 1916—a year and a half after the Endurance became trapped.
"A thrilling reading experience. One of the greatest adventure stories of our times."—NYTBR

Item code: WH-70849
ISBN: 1853675520
Authors: Jacques Heers. Jonathan North, trans.
Pages/Length: 272
Publisher: Greenhill
Publication Date: 2003
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: History
Date Added: 4/13/2007
$34.95

The Barbary Corsairs first terrorized shipping in the 16th century. These Muslim pirates sailed out of the ports of North Africa and, acting as officers of the sprawling Ottoman Empire, plundered the trading routes of the Mediterranean and sowed horror in the hearts of Christians everywhere. The most famous and powerful were the Barbarossa brothers, sons of a renegade Christian and the true founders of the Algiers regency. Jacques Heers follows the extraordinary exploits of the brothers, and those of other corsairs and profiteers, set against the turbulent backdrop of trade, commerce, and conflict throughout the Mediterranean.

Item code: 50022
ISBN: 0813529786
Authors: P.J. Capelotti.
Pages/Length: 294
Publisher: Rutgers
Publication Date: 2001
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: History
Date Added: 4/15/2007
Price: $26.00

Between the spring of 1947 and the summer of 2000, more than 40 expeditions sought to sail the oceans of the world on rafts made from straw, from bamboo, and from balsa—the same wood that children use to make toy airplanes. These audacious voyages began with the legendary Kon-Tiki expedition, under the leadership of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. His balsa-wood raft drifted more than 4,000 miles from Peru to Polynesia, buoying Heyerdahl's radical thesis of ancient mariners crossing the world's largest ocean. His journey electrified the post-war world, and his book sold twenty million copies in 65 languages. Sea Drift documents the transoceanic raft expeditions that followed, not all of them pure expressions of scientific inquiry. Readers learn of the Mormon who drifted from Redondo Beach to Hawaii, hoping to prove that wise men from Israel had colonized America; the Frenchman who squeezed drinking water from the flesh of fish as he drifted alone across the Atlantic in a rubber boat; and the anthropologist who put five men and six women on a raft to see who would make love to whom first.
 

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