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Iced in, ten days trapped on the edge of Antarctica, Chris Turney

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Iced in, ten days trapped on the edge of Antarctica, Chris Turney

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index

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illustrationsplatesmaps

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index present

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non fiction

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Iced in

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bibliography

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Chris Turney

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ten days trapped on the edge of Antarctica

Summary

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 almost a century prior

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10 days trapped on the edge of Antarctica

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