Frank Worsley (1872–1943)
Autore di Shackleton's Boat Journey
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Opere di Frank Worsley
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Worsley, Frank
- Nome legale
- Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Data di nascita
- 1872-02-22
- Data di morte
- 1943-02-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- New Zealand
- Luogo di nascita
- Akaroa, South Island, New Zealand
- Luogo di morte
- Claygate, Surrey, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Istruzione
- Fendalton School
- Attività lavorative
- sailor
polar explorer
author - Organizzazioni
- Royal Navy Reserve
International Red Cross - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Polar Medal
Distinguished Service Order and Bar
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Order of St Stanislaus
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 834
- Popolarità
- #30,629
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 25
- Lingue
- 2
Nicely produced book with attractively textured cover. On the downside, the photo captions are too close to the gutter (I did not want to crack the spine to open it more) and I don't particularly like the choice of all caps, but that's a minor detail. Love the Bodoni typeface.
Now I want to know more about these men.
A quote, p. 39:
(after landfall on Elephant Island where most of the crew stayed while Shackleton and five others set off in the Caird lifeboat heading for South Georgia):
"Gales of wind off the ice-sheet blew almost incessantly. In one heavy gale sheets of ice 1/4 in. thick and 1 ft square were hurled about by the wind, making it dangerous to venture out.
After the tents were ruined we lived under the upturned boats. The aristocracy slept in their bags on oars and sledge-runners placed on the thwarts. On the dirt and blubber-caked shingle 3 ft beneath the rougher Bolshevik element insolently reclined. The swells above kocked out their pipes or dropped dirty socks on the lower classes. This sometimes caused a slight unplesantness which, fortunately, never culminated in a class war.
In that narrow gloomy space McIlroy and Macklin performed an amazing operation. They amputated Blackborrows' frostbitten toes, saving his foot and possibly his life.... Seriously, I was always sorry for the twenty-two men who lived in that horrible place for four months of misery while we were away on the boat journey, and the four attemps at rescue ending with their joyful relief."… (altro)