![]() ![]() Seal meat was their only sustenance as Shackleton's expedition to push the limits of human strength took a new form: one of survival against the odds.Īs this legendary story entered the annals of polar exploration, it inspired a new global race to find the wrecked Endurance, by all accounts "the world's most unreachable shipwreck." Several missions failed, thwarted, as Shackleton was, by the unpredictable Weddell Sea. They watched in silence as the ship's stern rose twenty feet in the air and disappeared into the frigid sea, then spent six harrowing months marooned on the ice in its wake. ![]() Ernest Shackleton and his crew had navigated the 144-foot, three-masted wooden vessel to Antarctica to become the first to cross the barren continent, but early season pack ice trapped them in place offshore. ![]() On November 21, 1914, after sailing more than ten thousand miles from Norway to the Antarctic Ocean, the Endurance finally succumbed to the surrounding ice. The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday Times "As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Influences and inspirationĪ self-confessed book-aholic, Mac credits Louise Fitzhugh, author of Harriet the Spy, with the realization of "what kind of power words carry, and how they can be used to sharpen your own identity and injure others." Other influences include: Anne Cameron, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro. Mac also worked at various times as a sign language interpreter, a bookstore clerk, and a child and youth advocate in a transition house. She trained as a paramedic at the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Mac dropped out of high school in Grade eleven, completing her secondary education by correspondence. ![]() Mac's first job, at age seven, was to read the Bible to an ex-Son of Freedom she was paid a quarter a page. During her childhood and youth, Mac lived in Vancouver, Grand Forks, Abbotsford and on the Sunshine Coast. Mac was born in Kamloops, British Columbia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the end, the two wind up defending humanity against an even more dangerous alien enemy than the Hive faced by the Rowan.Ī review from Publishers Weekly praised the book, and considered the book to be "engrossing", whereas a negative Kirkus review criticised its plot and stated that it was " but weightless balderdash, not so much for the drippy romancing as the dismally cursory aliens". Lyon later realizes that he has fallen in love with his young ward, which gives him rather conflicted feelings. Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, open your mind to new worlds and new concepts: alien. It then shows Lyon's view of the events of The Rowan, followed by his helping to raise Rowan and Jeff Raven's children, especially the precocious and powerful Damia. It begins with his childhood on the strictly regimented colony planet orbiting Capella. ![]() Damia is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Anne McCaffrey it is the sequel to The Rowan, and the second book of the Tower and Hive series.ĭamia is told mainly from the point of view of Afra Lyon, the Rowan's assistant, a character first introduced in the previous book. The Rowan Anne McCaffrey An Ace/Putnam Book, 1990 - Fiction - 335 pages 20 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified The Rowan was. From one of science fiction and fantasys most beloved novelists (Damia, The Rowan), here is The Rowans next generation of passionate and talented. ![]() |