Endurance

Endurance
Author: Alfred Lansing
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465058795

Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

Shackleton's Boat Journey

Shackleton's Boat Journey
Author: F. A. Worsley
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781862547759

This is the classic account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914-1916 Antarctic expedition. Written by the captain of the Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton on this ill-fated journey, it is a remarkable tale of courage and bravery in the face of extreme odds and a vivid portrait of one of the world's greatest explorers. "A breathtaking story of courage under the most appalling conditions." - Edmund Hillary

The Endurance

The Endurance
Author: Caroline Alexander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781526708786

Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition one of history's greatest epics of survival. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure was never before published comprehensively. Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. The survival of Hurley's remarkable images is scarcely less miraculous: The original glass plate negatives, from which most of the book's illustrations are superbly reproduced, were stored in hermetically sealed canisters that survived months on the ice floes, a week in an open boat on the polar seas, and several more months buried in the snows of a rocky outcrop called Elephant Island. Finally, Hurley was forced to abandon his professional equipment; thereafter he captured some of the most unforgettable images of the struggle with a pocket camera and three rolls of Kodak film.

DEL-Endurance

DEL-Endurance
Author: Alfred Lansing
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1993-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780881841787

The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Schackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put it, "defined heroism". Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book--with over 200,000 copies sold--has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the "Endurance's" fateful trip.

Paraendurance - A new sporting resource

Paraendurance - A new sporting resource
Author: Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri
Publisher: Antonio Sorbello Editore
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 8888445811

The Paraendurance takes place in the countryside along trails where the competitions are tested, judged and regulated by the FISE which is affiliated to the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) which, in turn, recognizes the FISE as the only representative of Equestrian Sports in Italy. The main goals for the riders who practice Paraendurance are: to facilitate socializing, to stimulate the awareness of one’s surroundings, to favor personal gratification, to get used to physical fatigue in order to train and better motion efficiency, to improve mingling and communicating with others through the care and attention given to one’s own horse. The therapeutic use of the horse in the rehabilitation of mental disorders basically implies that the relationship in itself becomes the functioning instrument. This relationship is largely based on becoming aware of the other being different from one’s own self which puts into motion the process of “taking care of” by acquiring a deep ethological knowledge that will allow a true and correct communication with the horse. The psychic effort involved in reasoning out someone’s else mind functioning takes the name of meta-cognition, but in dealing with psychotic or cognitive disorders this ability fails. On the other hand, the relationship with the horse, the level of being in tune with it and the ability to understand it represent the main focus in building a successful combined pair within a discipline such as the Endurance. It is at this point therefore, that the Paraendurance becomes a logical sport evolution for the rehabilitation treatment of many disorders and in particular the ones of psychic natures.

Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences

Legacies and Change in Polar Sciences
Author: Jessica Michelle Shadian
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2009
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780754673996

Providing the first comprehensive account to look explicitly at the relationship between global politics and science through an account of the International Polar Years, this volume combines both interdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approaches to engage directly with the most recent debates in international relations scholarship.

La gran desaparición

La gran desaparición
Author: David Jeremiah
Publisher: Editorial Patmos
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2024-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1646913345

ERÁ UN DÍA COMO CUALQUIER OTRO EN ESTE MUNDO. HASTA QUE, DE REPENTE, YA NO LO ES. Durante décadas, el Dr. David Jeremiah ha escudriñado las Escrituras en busca de respuestas respecto al fin del mundo, los eventos monumentales del futuro, conocidos como el Rapto, la Tribulación, la Segunda Venida, y más. En La gran desaparición, el Dr. Jeremiah recopila su investigación profética para los creyentes curiosos que esperan pacientemente el retorno triunfante de Cristo. A través de una reflexión bíblica cuidadosa, el Dr. Jeremiah describe en detalle los días venideros tal como los dijeron los profetas del Antiguo y el Nuevo Testamentos. Su extensa exploración presenta una cronología de eventos como lo predicen las Escrituras; ofrece esperanza y motivación en cuanto a la vida después de la muerte; y responde muchas preguntas generales acerca del inevitable fin del mundo. Incluyendo: • ¿Veré a mis seres queridos en el cielo? • ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre el Rapto y la Segunda Venida? • ¿Cómo será mi cuerpo resucitado? • ¿De qué manera puedo prepararme hoy para el futuro? Al extraer de su conocimiento profundo de la profecía bíblica y su pasión por compartir la verdad de la Palabra de Dios, el Dr. Jeremiah devela hábilmente los misterios que rodean el Rapto y la Segunda Venida. Si usted es un estudiante experimentado de la profecía o si es nuevo en la fe, La gran desaparición expandirá su entendimiento, profundizará su fe y lo acercará un paso más al futuro de gloria esperado para quienes han puesto su fe en Cristo Jesús.

The Physiology of Physical Training

The Physiology of Physical Training
Author: Zsolt Radák
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2018-06-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128151382

The Physiology of Physical Training provides complete coverage of the physiological and methodological aspects of physical training, providing essential knowledge for anyone involved in exercise physiology. Physiological processes at the cellular level (and for the whole organism) are covered to better explain particular training methods and convey a deeper knowledge and understanding of training techniques. Coverage of exercise training-induced adaptive responses and the most appropriate training methods to bring about targeted adaptive changes are also included. This is the perfect reference for researchers of physiology/kinesiology and human kinetics, practicing coaches, graduate students and sports medicine specialists. - Describes exercise-induced adaptation, from the cell to the whole body - Demonstrates practical applications of exercise for injury, disease prevention and improved physical performance - Fully integrates the knowledge of molecular exercise physiology and training methods

Constitutive Visions

Constitutive Visions
Author: Christa J. Olson
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2015-06-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0271063629

In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.