![]() ![]() Like the story itself, it has endured the test of time. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. ![]() 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.įirst published in 1959, Lansing's account of Shackleton's expedition has become a classic of its genre - exciting nonfiction that reads like a novel. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage - Kindle edition by Lansing, Alfred. ![]() 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. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. 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. Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. ![]()
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