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. Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914.
Only those who have experienced it can fully appreciate what it means to be without the sun day after day and week after week. It is a return to the Ice Age no warmth, no life, no movement.
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. quote from Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night. 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. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackletons survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, 'defined heroism. 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.
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.
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