The Review of Reviews
| Preis: | 14.95 EUR* (inkl. MWST zzgl. Versand - Preis kann jetzt höher sein!) |
| Versand: | 0.00 EUR Versandkostenfrei innerhalb von Deutschland |
| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Author, Unknown) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Review of Reviews: For Australasia 9; Sept;, 1911; The Stead Fisher Interview There is no need to tell who Lieutenant Shackleton is or what his hook describes. His marvellous dash for the South Pole has thrilled the world, and he himself, modest, retiring, a typical Briton, is now being lionised in an almost unprecedented way. We all know what the book is about, but, with the exception of a handful of privileged persons, no one yet knows whether the wonderful story is told in a way to grip the attention of the reader or whether it is befogged with technical matter and overloaded with insignificant details, a forest of achievements which cannot he properly discerned because of the trees of minor events and experiences. Fortunately we have before us the opinion of a great critic who has read the proofs of the book. He says, "I have seldom read so human a document. Every line throbs with the straightforward earnestness of one who has been universally hailed, as above everything else, as ´a man.´ The book grips the reader from the first paragraph to the last. Its charm lies in its simple style and lack of technical details. If it were not for the splendid appendices the book would have little scientific value, out as it is it stands easily first amongst books on the Polar regions. The plain, unvarnished diary kept from day to day by Lieutenant Shackleton of bis prodigious journey of within ninety-seven miles of the Pole will take its place as the epic of Polar exploration. No one could read through the record of the superhuman efforts against the arrayed forces of nature without a choking in the throat, and a feeling of intense pride in these four men who risked their lives crossing ghastly crevasses, struggling forward often at the rate of only a few hundred yards an hour, against a howling blizzard, on quarter rations, without a full meal in over three mouths, suffering forms now blindness, dysentery, and bruises innumerable staggering along on the last day, starving, half-frozen, gasping for breath in the rarefied atmosphere of the gigantic plateau 10,000 feet high, on which they were the only living things, but indomitable and determined to place the Union Jack nearest the Pole These men are our countrymen, Britons every one. Who dare say that our race is declining when it produces men like these?" Further description of the way in which the subject is treated is unnecessary. The work is in two volumes, 7 1/2 x 10, the first having 269 pages of text, the second 238, and 180 pages or appendices, contributed by the scientific members of the exploration, dealing with the scientific results obtained. Nine cameras were taken by the "Nimrod," and some of the explorers must have been adepts in their use, for the photographs are magnificent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
* Preis kann jetzt höher sein. Den aktuellen Stand und Informationen zu den Versandkosten finden sie auf der Homepage unseres Partners.
Folgende Produkte könnten dir ebenso gefallen
