Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica 9781493060344

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Автор: Bunes Robert M.
Название: Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica
ISBN: 9781493060344
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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ISBN-10: 1493060341
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 01.10.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations, unspecified; halftones, black & white including black & white photographs
Размер: 23.01 x 15.39 x 3.00 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The perils of a coast guard icebreaker in antarctica
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 Shackletons 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 Shackletons 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 naпvely 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.

Wind, Fire, and Ice: The Perils of a Coast Guard Icebreaker in Antarctica, Bunes Robert M.