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Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica

โœ Scribed by Turney, Chris

Book ID
109733809
Publisher
Kensington
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
1 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780806538525

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โœฆ Synopsis

"The Antarctic Factor: if anything can go wrong, it will. It's basically Murphy's Law on steroids..." --Chris Turney
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On Christmas Eve 2013, off the coast of East Antarctica, an abrupt weather change trapped the _Shokalskiy -- _the ship carrying earth scientist Chris Turney and seventy-one others involved in the Australian Antarctic Expedition--in a densely packed armada of sea ice, 1400 miles from civilization. With the ship's hull breached and steerage lost, the wind threatened to drive the vessel into the frozen continent, smashing it to pieces. If nearby floating icebergs picked up speed, they could cause a devastating collision, leaving little time to abandon ship and potentially creating an environmental disaster. The forecast offered no relief--a blizzard was headed their way.

As Turney chronicles his modern-day ordeal , he revisits famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's harrowing Antarctic expedition...

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