Escape from the ice : Shackleton and the Endurance /

Roop, Connie,

Escape from the ice : Shackleton and the Endurance / by Connie and Peter Roop ; illustrated by Bob Doucet. - New York : Scholastic, (c)2001. - 48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.

"Cartwheel books."

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.



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Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 --Travel--Juvenile literature.
Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.


Endurance (Ship)--Juvenile literature.
Endurance (Ship)


Explorers.

G850 1914 / .E833 2001