Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Lansing, Alfred
ISBN: 9780465062881
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.
For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia--a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean.
In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Lansing, Alfred
  • ISBN: 9780465062881
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.10 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2015

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  • Easy to endure

    Would Recommend
    Martin C. - 2 months ago

    ...and I whine about snowy days and damp feet for a month or two per year.

    Tags: Suspenseful, Quick Read

  • Lots of anxiety with a miraculous ending in the terrifying Antarctic.

    Teresa R. - 4 years 2 months ago

    Captivating and incredible true history with breathtaking depiction of events.

  • Inspritational

    Eric H. - 5 years 8 months ago

    This is probably the greatest tale of survival against all odds. Ernest Shackleton saved the lives of every member of his crew. Others would have given up under the same circumstances, but Shackleton did not. If you've never heard this inspiring story, you should seek it out. It is worthwhile.

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