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.
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