Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Author: Alfred Lansing

Brand: Basic Books

Features:

• Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, paperback

Binding: Paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 357

Release Date: 28-04-2015

Part Number: 9780465062881

Details: 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.

EAN: 9780465062881

Package Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches

Languages: English