![]() This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's brilliantly narrated book, published in 1959, has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip. ![]() ![]() New York, Toronto & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Endurance, Shackletons Incredible Voyage. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. The resulting book has all the immediacy of a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. 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. The story about how Ernest Shackleton led his men to safety after his ship, the Endurance, was beset and then crushed by sea ice.Ive read the book. ![]()
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