Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

ISBN: 0881841781
Authors: Alfred Lansing.
Pages/Length: 282
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Publication Date: 1986
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: history
Condition: New

Ernest Shackleton's third trip to Antarctica resulted in his ship Endurance being trapped in pack ice in January 1915 and eventually crushed. Shackleton and his men, drifting south on the ice, were castaways in one of the most savage climates on earth. His leadership is recounted here from diaries and interviews with his crew. Shackleton led them across hundreds of miles of ice, then to Elephant Island in open lifeboats. He then journeyed across 800 miles of stormy ocean with a few of his men in the lifeboat James Caird to South Georgia Island and climbed across its jagged interior—a journey few have dared make to this day—to the outpost of Stromness on the far coast, where he organized a rescue for his remaining men. They were finally retrieved from Elephant Island in August 1916—a year and a half after the Endurance became trapped.
"A thrilling reading experience. One of the greatest adventure stories of our times."—NYTBR

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