The Ice-Cold Heaven - Hardcover

Bonne, Mirko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159020140X ISBN 13: 9781590201404

Publisher: Overlook Pr, 2013

Synopsis

With him on his ship Endurance are twenty-eight crew members, sixty-nine sled dogs, a gramophone, a bicycle--and Merce Blackboro, a seventeen-year-old stowaway hidden amidst oilskins and sea boots. Their journey into the ice is by way of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. But the Antarctic summer is short, and their passage remains resolutely closed to them. In the Weddell Sea the Endurance is trapped for months in pack ice and finds itself delivered up to an uncertain fate. Richly imagined and gripping right up the very last page, Ice-Cold Heaven traces Shackleton's legendary and heroic adventure through the ice and explores the relationships between these men who were lost to the world for 635 days.

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Review:

"Forced to abandon ship, the 28-member crew [of the Endurance] find themselves equally trapped in one of the most forbidding places on earth. The story of their survival though Bonne has taken some liberties with the historical record is legendary and the stuff of high drama. Fans of adventure and survival tales against overwhelming odds won t want to miss this." "Booklist""

About the Author:

Mirko Bonne, born 1965 in Tegernsee, lives in Hamburg. He has translated poetry by Keats, e.e.cummings, and W. B. Yeats, and has published several novels and volumes of poetry. His novel "Wie Wir Verschwinden" was longlisted for the German Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 159020140X
• ISBN 13: 9781590201404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 353