Book: _Shackleton's Boat Journey_

Thomas Grimes (tgrimes@gw.bsu.edu)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:17:14 -0500


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Hi

I have two paperback copies of Frank Worsley's _Shackleton's Boat
Journey_. The blurb on the back says

"F. A. Worsley was the skipper of the _Endurance_, the ship used by
Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914 - 1916 expedition to Antarctica, and
this is his account of that perilous triop. The _Endurance_ was
crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty eight drifted on an ice
floe for five months, finally reaching an uninhabited island. From
there Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed in a small boat to
south Georgia, an island eight hundred miles away, to find rescue."

This is considered to be one of the greatest small boat voyages of
all time, and I believe rightfully so. Both copies are for sale for
$8, which includes postage. They will go to the first two people to
let me know that they want a copy.

Regards

Tom Grimes
P-14 #363 Far Horizon
Muncie, Indiana