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The Ship Beneath the Ice

Autor Mensun Bound
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2024

Imaginea este de o intensitate copleșitoare: sub privirile tăcute ale celor douăzeci și opt de membri ai echipajului, pupa vasului se ridică șase metri în aer înainte de a fi înghițită definitiv de apele înghețate. Notăm cu interes că, spre deosebire de numeroasele volume care s-au concentrat exclusiv pe supraviețuirea miraculoasă a lui Sir Ernest Shackleton și a oamenilor săi, Bound, M: Ship Beneath the Ice mută reflectorul asupra protagonistului de lemn și oțel al acestei epopei: nava Endurance. Ceea ce diferențiază această lucrare este perspectiva duală, împletind eșecul eroic din 1915 cu triumful tehnologic din 2022. Remarcăm modul în care Mensun Bound, în calitatea sa de director de explorare, transformă o căutare arheologică într-o narațiune cinematică de o tensiune constantă. Autorul nu se limitează la date tehnice, ci reconstruiește drama umană a echipei moderne care se confruntă cu aceeași mare ostilă care a învins expediția originală. Subliniem valoarea documentară excepțională a cărții, care integrează fotografiile istorice ale lui Frank Hurley cu imagini recente de înaltă rezoluție, oferind o punte vizuală peste un secol de tăcere subacvatică. Textul este așezat pe același raft cu The Sea Hunters de Clive Cussler, dar cu un accent pe rigoarea arheologiei marine și pe natura aproape mistică a acestui „capsule a timpului” înghețate. Dacă volumul lui Cussler explorează vânătoarea de epave ca aventură pură, Bound ne oferă o meditație asupra perseverenței umane și a legăturii profunde cu istoria explorării polare. Este o cronică despre redescoperirea imposibilului, scrisă cu precizia unui om de știință și pasiunea unui martor ocular.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063297418
ISBN-10: 0063297418
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 132 x 197 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte pasionaților de explorări polare și arheologie subacvatică. Dincolo de faptele istorice cunoscute, cititorul câștigă acces în culisele uneia dintre cele mai complexe misiuni de recuperare din secolul XXI. Este o poveste despre cum tehnologia modernă onorează trecutul, oferind o încheiere spectaculoasă legendei lui Shackleton. O lectură fascinantă despre ambiție, spirit de echipă și misterele adâncurilor înghețate.


Notă biografică

MENSUN BOUND was Director of Exploration on the 2019 and 2022 expeditions to locate Shackleton's Endurance. Previously Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St. Peter's College, Oxford University, he is a leading marine archeologist who has discovered many of the world's most famous shipwrecks.

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"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ... Bound's account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday Times
The inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.
On November 21, 1914, after sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Antarctic Ocean, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice. Ernest Shackleton and his crew had navigated the 144-foot, three-masted wooden vessel to Antarctica to become the first to cross the barren continent, but early season pack ice trapped them in place offshore. They watched in silence as the ship's stern rose twenty feet in the air and disappeared into the frigid sea, then spent six harrowing months marooned on the ice in its wake. Seal meat was their only sustenance as Shackleton's expedition to push the limits of human strength took a new form: one of survival against the odds.
As this legendary story entered the annals of polar exploration, it inspired a new global race to find the wrecked Endurance, by all accounts ?the world's most unreachable shipwreck.? Several missions failed, thwarted, as Shackleton was, by the unpredictable Weddell Sea. Finally, a century to the day after Shackleton's death, renowned marine archeologist Mensun Bound and an elite team of explorers discovered the lost shipwreck. Nearly ten thousand feet below the ice lay a remarkably preserved Endurance, its name still emblazoned on the ship's stern.
The Ship Beneath the Ice chronicles two dramatic expeditions to what Shackleton called ?the most hostile sea on Earth.? Bound experienced failure and despair in his attempts to locate the wreck, and, like Shackleton before him, very nearly found his vessel frozen in ice.
Complete with captivating photos from the 1914 expedition and of the wreck as Bound and his team found it, this inspiring modern-day adventure narrative captures the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries?both of whom accomplished the impossible.

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The Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month. Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition. 'As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration . . . Bound's account is a triumph' - The Sunday Times On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all twenty-eight men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship that bore them to the brink of the Antarctic was considered forever lost. A century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatched. The Ship Beneath the Ice gives a blow-by-blow account of the two epic expeditions to find the Endurance. As with Shackleton's own story, the voyages were filled with intense drama and teamwork under pressure. In March 2022, the Endurance was finally found to headlines all over the world. Written by Mensun Bound, maritime archaeologist and Director of Exploration in the search to find the Endurance, this captivating narrative recounts incredible stories of Shackleton and his legendary ship, and the journey to its rediscovery. Beautifully illustrated with Frank Hurley's photos from Shackleton's original voyage in 1914-17, as well as from the expeditions in 2019 and 2022, The Ship Beneath the Ice is the perfect tribute to this monumental discovery. 'The story of Shackleton's Endurance is one of the most extraordinary in the history of exploration. This is more than just an astonishing sequel. It is a tale just as powerful, and one which redefines the meaning of impossible' - Sir Michael Palin