First published in 1931, Endurance relates the riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s doomed 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic and its incredible rescue: After HMS Endurance became stuck in Antarctic ice packs and then sank into the Weddell Sea, its twenty-five crew members were forced to launch three lifeboats and sail, in miserable conditions, for barren Elephant Island. From there, Shackleton, Frank Worsley (captain of the Endurance), and four others set off in the largest of the lifeboats, the James Caird, to seek help eight hundred miles away at the whaling stations on the island of South Georgia. Endurance is not only a tale of courage and unrelenting high adventure but also a tribute to one of the most courageous leaders in the history of exploration.
(Summary from back cover)
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