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.
General
| Imprint: |
BasicBooks
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2015 |
| Authors: |
Alfred Lansing
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
357 |
| Edition: |
Anniversary edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-465-06288-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-465-06288-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780465062881 |
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