Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole.

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. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

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.

 

HammerMan's Note: This in an absolutely amazing true story. These men endured what few of us today could ever imagine or tolerate. You will leave this story feeling both a bit inadequate yet inspired that if these men can accomplish this feat, I can navigate life also if I just keep pushing. Imagine keeping you feet and legs in near freezing water for days and weeks on end- only because it is warmer than the sub-zero air. Some folks get uncomfortable when the air conditioning is below 80 degrees or the heat goes below 65 degrees. (What would Shackleton do?)

 

ISBN-13: 9780465062881
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 04/28/2015
Edition description: Anniversary Edition
Pages: 416 Paperback
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)