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portada Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica (en Inglés)
Formato
Libro Físico
Editorial
Idioma
Inglés
N° páginas
296
Encuadernación
Tapa Dura
Dimensiones
23.0 x 15.4 x 3.0 cm
Peso
0.61 kg.
ISBN13
9781493060344

Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica (en Inglés)

Robert M. Bunes (Autor) · Lyons Press · Tapa Dura

Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica (en Inglés) - Bunes, Robert M.

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Between 1955 and 1987, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Glacier was the largest and most powerful icebreaker in the free world. Consequently, it was often given the most difficult and dangerous Antarctic missions. This is the dramatic first-person account of its most legendary voyage. In 1970, the author was the Chief Medical Officer on the Glacier when it became trapped deep in the Weddell Sea, pressured by 100 miles of wind-blown icepack. Glacier was beset within seventy miles of where Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was imprisoned in 1915. His stout wooden ship succumbed to the crushing pressure of the infamous Weddell Sea pack ice and sank, leading to an unbelievable two-year saga of hardship, heroism and survival. The sailors aboard the Glacier feared they would suffer Shackleton's fate, or one even worse. Freakishly good luck eventually saved the Glacier from destruction, but the story is told as the author, who was not part of the chain of command, experienced it. More imminent threats later occurred involving a three-hour inferno, as well as eight-story waves that drove the ship to the brink of disaster. Wind, Fire, and Ice is the story about a physician fresh-out-of-internship who naïvely assumes he is going to have an easy assignment and see numerous exotic ports. Instead, he experiences adventures and adversities beyond his imagination, as well as jarring conflicts with an obsessed captain.

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