South (Real Reads) - Softcover

Shackleton, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911091034 ISBN 13: 9781911091035

Publisher: Real Reads, 2016

Synopsis

‘At 5 o’clock on the evening of November 21st, after the ice had drawn back like pall bearers at a funeral, Endurance slipped lower in the water, her stern pointing skywards. We stood in silence while she said her last farewell. A cacophony of cracking timber and rushing water signaled her end and then she was silent, slipping into the watery grave. The bravest ship, she had struggled to the bitter end and now she was gone. Endurance – well named.’ When his ship Endurance sinks in the icy Antarctic, Ernest Shackleton is left with the responsibility of getting his crew safely back home. Can they survive the crossing of dangerous ice floes and setting up camp on the remote Elephant Island? But nobody knows where they are unless somebody can sail the tiny lifeboat across eight hundred miles of the world’s most dangerous seas. Can it be done?

Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world’s greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.

About this title

About the Author:

Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole on several occasions. Maurice Pierse is an experienced Irish illustrator specialising in storyboards and visuals for advertising, and illustrations for print and comics. In recent years he has done storyboard work for American television channels FX, NBC Universal and the History channel. He lives in Dublin. John MacKenna is the author of eighteen books - novels, short-stories, memoir, non-fiction and poetry -- and ten stage-plays. A winner of numerous literary prizes including the Irish Times, C Day Lewis and Hennessy Awards, he teaches creative writing at the National University of Ireland and is currently writer-in-residence with Carlow County Libraries and Arts Service. He lives in Co Carlow in Ireland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Real Reads
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911091034
• ISBN 13: 9781911091035
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Pierse Maurice