Endurance

By Alfred Lansing

Categories: History

In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton set sail for Antarctica, planning to cross the continent on foot. Just a day's sail short of its destination, his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in pack ice, and the men's long ordeal began. With their ship eventually crushed, Shackleton and his twenty-seven men faced months on the ice, and then a desperate 850-mile open-boat voyage across some of the world's roughest seas. Alfred Lansing tells one of history's great adventure stories.

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