Endurance is the true story of Shackleton's incredible voyage in
1914 to cross the Antarctic overland. His ship the 'Endurance' was
beset by ice in early 1915 and then crushed ten months later.
Shackleton and his men were 1200 miles away from the nearest
outpost of humanity. The fact that the crew managed to survive,
once Shackleton and five others had sailed 650 miles across the
'Raving Fifties' and the 'Screaming Sixties' to the south-east of
Cape Horn, is the stuff of legend vividly told in Shackleton's own
account 'South'. What Lansing adds are the perspectives from other
members of the crew and the trivia that goes along with any
expedition. These are drawn from diaries, private papers and
personal interviews. It is a fantastic story brilliantly told.
(Kirkus UK)
Discover the truth about ENDURANCE in this superb true story of
adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. 'Superb
... the greatest survival story of all time' Sir Chris Bonington
'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and
determination. The story is gripping and the book is a classic' Sir
Ranulph Fiennes ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most
astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the
South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of
the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October
1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the
ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton
and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the
most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based
on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with
survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together
in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they
were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed,
and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility
towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.
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